Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme
On 30th June, 2021, the Union Cabinet approved a Reforms-based and Results-linked, Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme.
- This is the second reform scheme for power distribution companies (discoms) announced by the government, a year after the ambitious UDAY (Ujjawala Discom Assurance Yojana) scheme concluded in March 2020.
- Nodal agencies for the scheme’s implementation are Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited and Power Finance Corporation (PFC).
Need
- State-owned discoms across the country continue to be financially and operationally beleaguered despite four reform schemes in the last 15 years.
- The earlier discom reform scheme UDAY concluded in March 2020, with most of the states failing to ....

