Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar & Orissa joins “UDAY”

Four major States namely Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra have agreed to join “UDAY” Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana. This was announced by Mr. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State ( IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy at a media briefing here today . Mr. Goyal said “this is a very important day in the history of power sector in India where on one day,four very large and important States have agreed to come on board and joined the UDAY Scheme.”

Mr. Goyal further stated that within 2 months of the announcement of UDAY Scheme, a total of 15 out of 29 States /UTs have voluntarily joined UDAY which covers 90 % of the total debt of Discoms. The fifteen States are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.