Reform-based scheme: Discoms get until Dec 31

Power distribution firms (discoms) trying to avail funds below the federal government’s Rs 3.03-lakh crore reform primarily based scheme for discoms should submit plans to chop losses by the top of the calendar 12 months, Power Minister RK Singh stated on Friday.
The scheme, authorized by the Union Cabinet final month, requires that discoms submit detailed undertaking reviews (DPRs) on how they plan to cut back their operational losses to avail of funding. Singh stated the preliminary timeline given to discoms was October 31 and most states had stated they might be capable of submit DPRs by that date.
Discoms within the nation are going through extreme monetary instability as a consequence of excessive combination technical & industrial (AT&C) losses and huge gaps between the whole price of electrical energy and revenues generated from supplying energy (ACS-ARR hole). Singh stated that the DPRs submitted by discoms must meet sure targets. “The required levels are AT&C losses down to 12 per cent and to bring their ACS-ARR gap down to zero in the next four years,” he added.
The new scheme replaces the UDAY scheme, launched by the federal government in November 2015 with the goal of lowering AT&C losses to fifteen per cent from 23.9 per cent in FY16 and bringing the ACS-ARR hole to zero from Rs 0.65 per unit. Average AT&C losses for Indian discoms are at the moment about 19.7 per cent and the cost-revenue hole is at the moment at Rs 0.52 per unit, in keeping with the Power Ministry.

Singh additionally stated that funding would solely be supplied to discoms in the event that they remained on monitor to fulfill their loss discount targets and that any deviation from their loss discount plans would result in funding being halted.