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The Government has modified the guidelines relating to the incentive schemes under the Accelerated Power Development Programme. The guidelines have been modified in the light of the suggestions made by State Electricity Boards and Utilities in a recently held Conference on APDRP in New Delhi. As per the new format for filing the incentive claims, the State Electricity Boards and Utilities are required to give details of 16 parameters including total income and expenditure, profit before and after tax and net prior period charges. They would also need to indicate the revenue subsidies and grants, tariff support or tariff compensation and the incentive received from the Union Power Ministry for reduction of loss under the APDRP. The new guidelines will help in an objective assessment of incentive claims made by the State Electricity Boards and Utilities. Up to now, there was a feeling among the states that the procedure for calculating the incentive is not very transparent.
Meanwhile, at the 7th meeting of the Steering Committee on APDRP held under the Chairmanship of Secretary (Power), 99 schemes amounting to an amount of Rs.1437.22 crore has been sanctioned. While Kerala has been sanctioned 26 schemes amounting to Rs.123.91 crore, Uttar Pradesh has been sanctioned 16 schemes amounting to Rs. 324.57 crore. During the meeting, the Committee reviewed the capacity building programme being undertaken under APDRP. The pace of implementation of APDRP schemes was also reviewed.
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