{"id":261698,"date":"2019-02-28T06:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261698"},"modified":"2019-02-28T06:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:21:13","slug":"modi-government-makes-it-clear-to-states-expect-24x7-power-supply-to-all-households-by-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modi-government-makes-it-clear-to-states-expect-24x7-power-supply-to-all-households-by-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi government makes it clear to states: Expect 24\u00d77 power supply to all households by April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The central government expects the states to make sure that all households get 24\u00d77 power supply by April this year, barring those in the agricultural region, Power Minister RK Singh said. Since \u2018metering is inadequate\u2019 and  there is \u2018need to conserve ground water\u2019, these states would be exempt from providing uninterrupted electricity to the agricultural segment of the population, he also said during a conference of power ministers of states and union territories on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>While the issues are being resolved, 8-10 hours of power supply would be \u2018sufficient\u2019 to agricultural consumers, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: 3 Aces up Modi\u2019s sleeve to bring fiscal deficit back under 3.4% target<\/p>\n<p>The discoms should look at reducing the losses so as to turn the sector sustainable, he said adding that the government\u2019s plans to shift to a prepaid system for power may leave states unable to buy power if they didn\u2019t have money readily available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government expects the states to make sure that all households get 24\u00d77 power supply by April this year, barring those in the agricultural region, Power Minister RK Singh said. Since \u2018metering is inadequate\u2019 and there is \u2018need to conserve ground water\u2019, these states would be exempt from providing uninterrupted electricity to the agricultural segment of the population, he also said during a conference of power ministers of states and union territories on Tuesday. While the issues are being resolved, 8-10 hours of power supply would be \u2018sufficient\u2019 to agricultural consumers, he added. Also read: 3 Aces up Modi\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}