{"id":280641,"date":"2019-07-06T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280641"},"modified":"2019-07-06T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:39:35","slug":"fm-nirmala-sitharaman-proposes-one-nation-one-grid-in-budget-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fm-nirmala-sitharaman-proposes-one-nation-one-grid-in-budget-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"FM Nirmala Sitharaman proposes &#8220;One Nation, One Grid&#8221; in Budget speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her maiden Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has outlined a &#8220;One Nation, One Grid&#8221; initiative to bring affordable power to all states.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the much-needed power reforms, such as the power tariff reform, should be soon taken up to provide last-mile connectivity and electricity connections to all households in rural and urban areas. She said that this was a part of the &#8216;Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana&#8217; scheme, popularly known as the &#8216;Saubhagya&#8217; scheme, which was launched by PM Narendra Modi in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to the government data, with 100 per cent electrification target being achieved, the government&#8217;s focus is now to provide consistent electricity at affordable rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her maiden Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has outlined a &#8220;One Nation, One Grid&#8221; initiative to bring affordable power to all states. She said that the much-needed power reforms, such as the power tariff reform, should be soon taken up to provide last-mile connectivity and electricity connections to all households in rural and urban areas. She said that this was a part of the &#8216;Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana&#8217; scheme, popularly known as the &#8216;Saubhagya&#8217; scheme, which was launched by PM Narendra Modi in September 2017. According to the government data, with 100 per cent electrification [&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-280641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280641","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=280641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}