{"id":280535,"date":"2019-07-06T05:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280535"},"modified":"2019-07-06T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:30:41","slug":"power-cooking-gas-for-every-family-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-cooking-gas-for-every-family-in-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Power, cooking gas for every family in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charting the way ahead for the energy sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: \u201cBy 2022, the 75th year of India\u2019s Independence, I would like to assure the nation that every single rural family, except those who are unwilling to take the connection, will have electricity and a clean cooking facility.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The subsidy on LPG under the Direct Benefit Transfer programme has been pegged at Rs. 29,500 crore for fiscal 2019-2020. The Centre incurred an expenditure of Rs. 16,477.80 crore on account of LPG subsidy in fiscal 2018-2019. <\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman also said that the recommendations of the High Level Empowered Committee on retirement of old and inefficient power plants and addressing low utilisation of gas plant capacity due to paucity of natural gas will also be taken up for implementation now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charting the way ahead for the energy sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: \u201cBy 2022, the 75th year of India\u2019s Independence, I would like to assure the nation that every single rural family, except those who are unwilling to take the connection, will have electricity and a clean cooking facility.\u201d The subsidy on LPG under the Direct Benefit Transfer programme has been pegged at Rs. 29,500 crore for fiscal 2019-2020. The Centre incurred an expenditure of Rs. 16,477.80 crore on account of LPG subsidy in fiscal 2018-2019. Sitharaman also said that the recommendations of the High Level Empowered Committee on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280535","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}