{"id":601800,"date":"2023-09-05T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601800"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:32:58","slug":"states-use-off-budget-borrowing-to-foot-power-subsidy-bills-csep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/states-use-off-budget-borrowing-to-foot-power-subsidy-bills-csep\/","title":{"rendered":"States use off-Budget borrowing to foot power subsidy bills: CSEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large chunk of off-Budget borrowing by states, which own distribution companies, or discoms, are used to foot electricity subsidies, according to a study by the New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP). <\/p>\n<p>The report, titled \u201cThe Nature and Implications of Off-Budget Borrowings in India: Centre and States\u201d, says in 2021, the five southern states &#8212; Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu &#8212; together accounted for debt worth Rs 2.34 trillion, approximately 93 per cent of the combined off-Budget borrowing by the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large chunk of off-Budget borrowing by states, which own distribution companies, or discoms, are used to foot electricity subsidies, according to a study by the New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP). The report, titled \u201cThe Nature and Implications of Off-Budget Borrowings in India: Centre and States\u201d, says in 2021, the five southern states &#8212; Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu &#8212; together accounted for debt worth Rs 2.34 trillion, approximately 93 per cent of the combined off-Budget borrowing by the states.<\/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-601800","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\/601800","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=601800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}