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Govt extend the deadline for states to join UDAY scheme

23 Jun 2016 Evaluate

The government has extended the timeline for states to join the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), meant for the revival of debt-laden discoms, by one year till 31 March, 2017 from the earlier stipulated date of March 31, 2016. The proposal is cleared in order to facilitate all states that want to benefit from the scheme and could not join scheme or issue bonds to pay off discoms debt due to various reasons like elections and regulatory approvals.

Under the UDAY scheme, the states were required to join the scheme formally last fiscal and issue bonds to pay off discoms 50 percent debt in 2015-16 and were supposed to issue bonds to pay off additional 25 percent of the discoms debt in the current fiscal. However, some states could not join the scheme and some could not issue bonds due to various reasons. As with this decisions, these state would be able issue the bonds to pay of 75 percent of state discoms debts as on September, 30, 2015 during the current fiscal itself.

Till date, 19 states have agreed to join the UDAY scheme. The discoms have total outstanding debt of Rs 4.3 lakh crore as on September 30, 2015. States that have joined UDAY issued bonds of nearly Rs 1 lakh crore in 2015-16 under the scheme to clear 50 per cent of the outstanding debt. Further, as per the requirement of the scheme, discoms bonds worth Rs 11,524 crore were floated. In the current fiscal, bonds worth Rs 14,801 crore have been floated by Uttar Pradesh.

Launched in November last year, UDAY scheme deals with the burgeoning debt of discoms in the country. It was estimated that outstanding debt of discoms has increased from about Rs 2.4 lakh crore in 2011-12 to about Rs 4.3 lakh crore in 2014-15, with interest rates upto 14-15 percent. It was also estimated that state discoms suffer a loss of over Rs 60,000 crore every year. The main objective of the scheme is to get these discoms out of circle of debt and allow them to buy power to increase consumption in the country.

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