{"id":430717,"date":"2021-08-16T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430717"},"modified":"2021-08-16T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:07:24","slug":"discom-losses-to-be-40-above-pre-pandemic-levels-crisil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discom-losses-to-be-40-above-pre-pandemic-levels-crisil\/","title":{"rendered":"Discom losses to be 40% above pre-pandemic levels: Crisil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash losses of power distribution companies (discoms) will remain elevated at around Rs 46,000 crore this fiscal or 40 per cent higher than the Rs 33,000 crore seen in the pre-pandemic levels of fiscal 2020, Crisil Ratings has said.This is because revenues will remain constrained as demand from high-paying, commercial and industrial (C &amp; I) consumers have been lower than seen during pre-pandemic period, while tariff hikes have been inadequate. <\/p>\n<p>Costs are also likely to surge primarily because of higher interest burden because of ballooning debt. A study of 34 state discoms (from 15 states) which account for over 80 per cent of India&#8217;s power demand shows as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash losses of power distribution companies (discoms) will remain elevated at around Rs 46,000 crore this fiscal or 40 per cent higher than the Rs 33,000 crore seen in the pre-pandemic levels of fiscal 2020, Crisil Ratings has said.This is because revenues will remain constrained as demand from high-paying, commercial and industrial (C &amp; I) consumers have been lower than seen during pre-pandemic period, while tariff hikes have been inadequate. Costs are also likely to surge primarily because of higher interest burden because of ballooning debt. A study of 34 state discoms (from 15 states) which account for over 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}