{"id":36327,"date":"2018-11-02T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36327"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:41:46","slug":"uday-covers-97-of-discom-debt-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uday-covers-97-of-discom-debt-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"UDAY covers 97% of discom debt: Centre:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/uday-covers-97-of-discom-debt-centre\/article19210690.ece\">UDAY covers 97% of discom debt: Centre<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) is the financial turnaround and revival package for electricity distribution companies of India (DISCOMs) initiated by the Government of India with the intent to find a permanent solution to the financial mess that the power distribution is in<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why in News<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, government announced that \u00a097% of the total outstanding debt of all state power distribution companies (discoms) has been covered under the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far, 86% of the restructurable debt has been revamped under the scheme<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Some Relevant Facts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, the total debt of all state-owned discoms was 3.95 lakh crore<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 26 states and 1 UT which have joined the UDAY scheme account for total outstanding debt of 3.82 lakh crore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, about 97% of the total outstanding debt of all State discoms has been covered under UDAY<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The national average of aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses (from all UDAY states) stood at 20.2% in FY17<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also the difference between the average cost of supply (ACS) and the average revenue realized (ARR) had come down in the last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UDAY covers 97% of discom debt: Centre: \u00a0Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) is the financial turnaround and revival package for electricity distribution companies of India (DISCOMs) initiated by the Government of India with the intent to find a permanent solution to the financial mess that the power distribution is in Why in News Recently, government&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uday-covers-97-of-discom-debt-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UDAY covers 97% of discom debt: Centre:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704570656},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}