{"id":625991,"date":"2024-01-03T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=625991"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T05:03:08","slug":"power-packed-move-discoms-surely-need-more-of-the-same-medicine-but-under-stricter-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-packed-move-discoms-surely-need-more-of-the-same-medicine-but-under-stricter-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Power-packed move: Discoms surely need more of the same medicine, but under stricter monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s plan to extend the capital support scheme for electricity distribution utilities\u2019 (discoms) network investments by five years from the current deadline of FY26 is sensible. The ongoing Rs 3-trillion revamped distribution sector scheme FY22-FY26 (RDSS) involves lending by PFC-REC under irrevocable state government guarantees, and the Centre\u2019s gross budgetary support of `97,631 crore, all expected to crowd in more funds, including by equipment manufacturers. The extension could mean a doubling of the funding support in real terms. According to official data, PFC-REC has so far released loans of over Rs 1.12 trillion under the scheme, with smart-metering and other steps to slash technical losses, training and capacity-building being the most capital-intensive elements of the massive plan for systems upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s plan to extend the capital support scheme for electricity distribution utilities\u2019 (discoms) network investments by five years from the current deadline of FY26 is sensible. The ongoing Rs 3-trillion revamped distribution sector scheme FY22-FY26 (RDSS) involves lending by PFC-REC under irrevocable state government guarantees, and the Centre\u2019s gross budgetary support of `97,631 crore, all expected to crowd in more funds, including by equipment manufacturers. The extension could mean a doubling of the funding support in real terms. According to official data, PFC-REC has so far released loans of over Rs 1.12 trillion under the scheme, with smart-metering and [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625991","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\/625991","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=625991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}