Lok Sabha Question No. 2549 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-01
Subject: Debts of DISCOMS
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: RABINDRA KUMAR JENA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2549 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.12.2016

## DEBTS OF DISCOMS

2549. SHRI RABINDRA KUMAR JENA:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of debt owed by the State run DISCOMs in all the States of the country during the last five years, year and DISCOM-wise;
- (b) the  details  of  the  DISCOMs  which  are  making  profit  across  the country during the current fiscal year, State-wise;
- (c) the names of the States which are power deficit presently;
- (d) whether  the  Union  Government  is  maintaining  any  data  on  the average  tariff  charged  from  different  categories  of  consumers  by  the States; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER, COAL, NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND MINES

( SHRI  PIYUSH GOYAL )

(a) : As  per  the  Report  on  'The  Performance  of  State  Power Utilities' published by Power Finance Corporation (PFC) Limited, the total outstanding debt for utilities selling power directly to consumers for the years 2010-11 to 2014-15 is  given below:

|                                       | 2010-11   | 2011-12   | 2012-13   | 2013-14   | 2014-15   |
|---------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Total Outstanding Debt (Rs. in crore) | 193,134   | 229,924   | 289,220   | 350,148   | 391,897   |

The  state-wise and utility-wise details are given in the Annexure-I.

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(b) : As  per  the  Report  on  'The  Performance  of  State  Power Utilities' published by PFC, for the years 2012-13 to 2014-15, the following utilities  selling  power  directly  to  consumers  made  profit  on  subsidy received basis in 2014-15:

| State       | Utility       |   Profit on subsidy received basis (Rs. in crore) |
|-------------|---------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| West Bengal | WBSEDCL       |                                                20 |
| Delhi       | BSES Rajdhani |                                                63 |
|             | BSES Yamuna   |                                                19 |
|             | TPDDL         |                                               336 |
| Karnataka   | BESCOM        |                                               113 |
|             | CHESCOM       |                                                37 |
|             | HESCOM        |                                                30 |
|             | MESCOM        |                                                14 |
| Puducherry  | Puducherry PD |                                               157 |
| Gujarat     | DGVCL         |                                                51 |
|             | MGVCL         |                                                29 |
|             | PGVCL         |                                                11 |
|             | UGVCL         |                                                17 |

(c) : As  per  the  Power  Supply  Position,  the  following  States/UTs have  experienced  power  deficit  during  the  period  April'  2016-  October' 2016:

| Range of Shortages (In %)                                                | States/ Union Territories                                                                                                                     |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Energy Shortage less than or equal to All India Average shortage of 0.7% | Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, West Bengal , Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Delhi and Puducherry            |
| Energy Shortage more than the All India Average Shortage of 0.7%.        | Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh , Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Andaman-Nicobar Islands. |

(d) & (e) : As per the data compiled by Central Electricity Authority, the State-wise and indicative consumer category-wise details of all India weighted average tariff (Rs./Unit) indicative for the period 2014-15 are given at Annexure-II.

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