UDAY SCHEME BRINGS BENEFITS TO DISCOMS

The Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY) scheme was launched in November 2015 by the Ministry of Power (MoP) and the Government of India (GoI). Since then, there has been significant improvement in the debts of the DISCOMs.

The participating states have taken over Rs 2.09 lakh crores of debt of their DISCOMs. The remaining debt is mostly in the form of CAPEX debt or scheme based debt which usually either pays itself off or which converts into grants. Therefore, the process of the states taking over the debts of DISCOMs and issuing them as SDL bonds has now been completed. Now the remainder of the action which includes bond issuance by the DISCOMs has to be completed.

Due to these actions, till March 2017, the participating DISCOMs had achieved net savings of Rs 15,000 Cr. The gap between Average Cost of Supply (ACS) and Average Revenue Realized (ARR) had also come down by 14 paisa per unit along with a reduction of 1% in the AT&C losses.

Details about the UDAY scheme and its implementation on our blog can be accessed here.