{"id":281129,"date":"2019-07-09T06:37:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281129"},"modified":"2019-07-09T06:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:45:30","slug":"up-govt-to-probe-buying-of-expensive-power-from-pvt-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-govt-to-probe-buying-of-expensive-power-from-pvt-cos\/","title":{"rendered":"UP govt to probe \u2018buying of expensive power from pvt cos\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to order an inquiry into \u2018buying of expensive electricity from private firms\u2019 as alleged by the Power Consumers\u2019 Council. <\/p>\n<p>A delegation of the council met UP energy minister Srikant Sharma and demanded a probe into alleged expensive buying of power from private players in the sector. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe informed the minister about the facts of the case and also highlighted the plight of the consumers. He has assured us that action will be taken if any discrepancies were found,\u201d said Avdhesh Verma, president of the consumers\u2019 council. <\/p>\n<p>He said that the average rate of power purchase from private firms was Rs 4.75 per unit whereas from state production it cost around Rs 3.65 and Rs 3.46 per unit from the Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to order an inquiry into \u2018buying of expensive electricity from private firms\u2019 as alleged by the Power Consumers\u2019 Council. A delegation of the council met UP energy minister Srikant Sharma and demanded a probe into alleged expensive buying of power from private players in the sector. \u201cWe informed the minister about the facts of the case and also highlighted the plight of the consumers. He has assured us that action will be taken if any discrepancies were found,\u201d said Avdhesh Verma, president of the consumers\u2019 council. He said that the average rate of power [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281129","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=281129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}