{"id":483554,"date":"2022-04-11T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=483554"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:18:51","slug":"power-discom-arrears-rise-23-to-5-year-high-of-rs-1-lakh-crore-in-fy22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-discom-arrears-rise-23-to-5-year-high-of-rs-1-lakh-crore-in-fy22\/","title":{"rendered":"Power discom arrears rise 23% to 5-year high of Rs 1 lakh crore in FY22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In yet another test for power sector reforms, dues of discoms (distribution companies) to gencos (generation companies) rose by more than 23% to Rs 1,03,330 crore at the end March from Rs 83,709 crore in the year-ago period. The dues do not include amounts disputed by discoms, a fact that makes the situation more grim.<br \/>\nThe outstanding amount is the highest since 2017, marking more than a fourfold increase from the over Rs 24,910 crore which discoms owed to gencos in March that year, according to data from power ministry&#8217;s Praapti (Payment Ratification And Analysis in Power Procurement for Bringing Transparency in Invoicing) portal that tracks billing and payments of gencos. The ballooning overdues underlines the challenges for the Centre&#8217;s reforms initiatives at the state level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In yet another test for power sector reforms, dues of discoms (distribution companies) to gencos (generation companies) rose by more than 23% to Rs 1,03,330 crore at the end March from Rs 83,709 crore in the year-ago period. The dues do not include amounts disputed by discoms, a fact that makes the situation more grim. The outstanding amount is the highest since 2017, marking more than a fourfold increase from the over Rs 24,910 crore which discoms owed to gencos in March that year, according to data from power ministry&#8217;s Praapti (Payment Ratification And Analysis in Power Procurement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483554","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}