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States participating in UDAY take over targeted debt of Rs. 2.09 lakh crores of their DISCOMs

States participating in UDAY take over targeted debt of Rs. 2.09 lakh crores of their DISCOMs

India Blooms News Service | | 16 Aug 2017, 01:18 pm
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IBNS): The Union Ministry of Power informed on Wednesday that participating states of under Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) have taken over the targeted debt of Rs. 2.09 lakh crores of their DISCOMs under borrowing exemption from the FRBM Act given in UDAY for 2015-16 and 2016-17.

UDAY, a turnaround and revival package for India's electricity and distribution companies (DISCOMs) was launched in November, 2015, and has completed more than one year of operation.

The process of states taking over the targeted debts and issuing them as SDL Bonds has now been completed, the Ministry said.

As of now, the participating DISCOMs have to issue Bonds worth approximately Rs. 37,000 crores, which would be done in due course.

Rest of the debt with DISCOMs is mostly in the nature of CAPEX debt, which pays for itself, or Scheme based debt, which converts into grants fully or partially. Thus, they are not required to be taken over by the states.

As a result of the debt addressed as above, and other operational interventions, the Ministry said that the participating DISCOMs have achieved net savings of approximately Rs. 15,000 crores till March, 2017.

Meanwhile, in the participating states, the Average Cost of Supply (ACS) - Average Revenue Realized (ARR) gaps have come down by almost 14 paise per unit and the AT&C losses have reduced by almost 1 per cent in FY 17, according to the Ministry.

As per the provisions of UDAY Scheme, the states will start taking over losses of DISCOMs in a graded manner from now on, starting with taking over 5 per cent of the losses of FY17 from the current financial year.

Continued, concerted and coordinated efforts by the Centre, states and DISCOMs, in the spirit of cooperative and competitive federalism, will help turn around the Distribution sector by FY19, the Ministry said in its release.


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