{"id":650509,"date":"2025-10-30T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650509"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:49:01","slug":"india-considering-12-billion-plan-to-bail-out-state-power-distributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-considering-12-billion-plan-to-bail-out-state-power-distributors\/","title":{"rendered":"India considering $12 billion plan to bail out state power distributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is considering a bailout exceeding 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) for debt-laden state-run power distribution companies.<\/p>\n<p>To receive the bailout funds, the states will be required to privatise their electric utilities and transfer managerial control or keep control but list them on a stock exchange, according to three government officials and a document outlining the plan prepared by the Indian Ministry of Power.<\/p>\n<p>The plan marks Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s toughest reform push yet to overhaul the chronically inefficient state-run electricity distribution companies, seen as the weakest link in India&#8217;s energy chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is considering a bailout exceeding 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) for debt-laden state-run power distribution companies. To receive the bailout funds, the states will be required to privatise their electric utilities and transfer managerial control or keep control but list them on a stock exchange, according to three government officials and a document outlining the plan prepared by the Indian Ministry of Power. The plan marks Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s toughest reform push yet to overhaul the chronically inefficient state-run electricity distribution companies, seen as the weakest link in India&#8217;s energy chain.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650509","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=650509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}