{"id":282587,"date":"2019-07-16T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282587"},"modified":"2019-07-16T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:18:10","slug":"govt-to-pay-damages-to-consumers-for-load-sheddings-union-power-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-pay-damages-to-consumers-for-load-sheddings-union-power-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to pay damages to consumers for load sheddings: Union Power Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minster R K Singh Sunday said the aim of the Centre is to have \u201cOne Nation One Grid\u201d and pay damages to consumers in case of load sheddings. <\/p>\n<p>The government will soon go ahead with structural reforms to achieve the objective of \u201cOne Nation One Grid\u201d, Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman had said in her budget speech earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government will pay damages (to consumers) if load sheddings happen,\u201d the Union Power Minister said without elaborating. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry would seek the Union Cabinet\u2019s nod for the power tariff policy in next few days, which would provide for penalty for unscheduled power cuts except in the case of technical faults or act of God (natural calamities), Singh had said on the day of tabling the Union budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minster R K Singh Sunday said the aim of the Centre is to have \u201cOne Nation One Grid\u201d and pay damages to consumers in case of load sheddings. The government will soon go ahead with structural reforms to achieve the objective of \u201cOne Nation One Grid\u201d, Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman had said in her budget speech earlier this month. \u201cThe government will pay damages (to consumers) if load sheddings happen,\u201d the Union Power Minister said without elaborating. The ministry would seek the Union Cabinet\u2019s nod for the power tariff policy in next few days, which would provide for penalty for [&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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-power-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282587","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=282587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}