With the Government bringing out various reform measures, market is on a
bullish run. One of the major sectors to be advantaged by the Government’s step
is the Power Sector.
Power Sector, which was facing innumerous regulatory issues owing to populism,
corruption, mismanagement, the bailout comes as a rescue to improve the entire
power sector of India.
The bailout helps the power distributors, mostly state owned, which has debt of
more than 1.8 lakh crore, to finally heave a sigh of relief.
Following are the few measures taken as a part of bailout:
• State governments will take on half of power distributors'
resulting short-term debt over the next two to five years and convert it into
long-term bonds
• Lenders, which are mostly government-run banks, will recast
the rest into long-term loans and offer a moratorium on repayment of principal
• Under the plan, the federal government will offer monetary
incentives to states to reduce distribution losses and will reimburse 25 per
cent of the principal repaid by the states.
• There will be power tariff hike from March 2013 onwards
which will increase the power sector revenue.
This restructuring will benefit the entire power sector value chain as power
generators and traders can expect timely payment from distribution companies
This would also mean distributors will have more funds to buy power and can
step up supplies to factories and homes, which now resort to expensive diesel
generators and solar panels to plug their energy gaps
This step taken by the Government is a major move towards developing India.
Power bail out gives an apt opportunity to look out for Power and related
companies as a safe investment.
BUY POWERGRID at CMP 120, RURAL ELECTRIFICATION CORPORATION at CMP 226, NHPC at
CMP 21, ALSTOM T & D at CMP 208, ABB at CMP 774, L& T at CMP 1615