{"id":510025,"date":"2022-07-29T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510025"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:34:48","slug":"explainer-why-tariff-revisions-are-key-to-discoms-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explainer-why-tariff-revisions-are-key-to-discoms-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPLAINER: Why tariff revisions are key to discoms\u2019 revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several schemes have been run \u2014 and are currently being implemented \u2014 to make discoms financially viable and operationally competent. But, these haven\u2019t yielded the desired outcomes. At the core of the issue is high user subsidies and delayed payments to the discoms by the states, creating a chain of payment defaults. Deepa Jainani examines the long-standing issue in the wake of a Tamil Nadu utility\u2019s proposal for 10-35% hike in tariffs, after a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several schemes have been run \u2014 and are currently being implemented \u2014 to make discoms financially viable and operationally competent. But, these haven\u2019t yielded the desired outcomes. At the core of the issue is high user subsidies and delayed payments to the discoms by the states, creating a chain of payment defaults. Deepa Jainani examines the long-standing issue in the wake of a Tamil Nadu utility\u2019s proposal for 10-35% hike in tariffs, after a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510025","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}