{"id":650782,"date":"2025-10-31T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650782"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:16:51","slug":"centre-plans-rs-1-trillion-bailout-for-debt-ridden-power-discoms-pushes-for-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-plans-rs-1-trillion-bailout-for-debt-ridden-power-discoms-pushes-for-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre plans Rs 1 trillion bailout for debt-ridden power discoms, pushes for privatisation"},"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","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.<\/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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650782","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=650782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}