{"id":276971,"date":"2019-06-01T05:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276971"},"modified":"2019-06-01T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:12:01","slug":"agenda-is-affordable-24x7-power-says-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/agenda-is-affordable-24x7-power-says-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Agenda is affordable, 24\u00d77 power, says RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Having electrified all households, the newly elected Modi government resolves to provide round-the clock electricity at affordable rates, power and renewable energy minister RK Singh said. \u201cOur next agenda is 24\u00d77 supply and that electricity should be affordable. Reliability, sustainability and affordability of power will be a priority,\u201d he told the media after taking charge. \u201cIn the last few years, we ensured electricity reaches every home,\u201d he said adding priority will also be to bring change in sector with respect to international commitments and environment. <\/p>\n<p>Singh was inducted into the council of ministers of the new government on Thursday. He will look after the additional portfolio of minister of state (MoS) skill development and entrepreneurship in the new cabinet of Modi government. Singh is a bureaucrat-turned politician and a second-time Lok Sabha member from Arrah in Bihar. He replaced Piyush Goyal as the power and renewable energy minister in September 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Having electrified all households, the newly elected Modi government resolves to provide round-the clock electricity at affordable rates, power and renewable energy minister RK Singh said. \u201cOur next agenda is 24\u00d77 supply and that electricity should be affordable. Reliability, sustainability and affordability of power will be a priority,\u201d he told the media after taking charge. \u201cIn the last few years, we ensured electricity reaches every home,\u201d he said adding priority will also be to bring change in sector with respect to international commitments and environment. Singh was inducted into the council of ministers of the new government on [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276971","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=276971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}