{"id":284033,"date":"2019-07-23T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284033"},"modified":"2019-07-23T07:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:34:26","slug":"only-1-tubewell-connection-for-punjab-farmers-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/only-1-tubewell-connection-for-punjab-farmers-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 1 tubewell connection for Punjab farmers now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lakhs of Punjab farmers, having more than one tubewell connection, may soon be barred from availing the State Government\u2019s power subsidy (free power). For, the Punjab Cabinet, during its scheduled July 24 meeting, is expected to take a decision in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year after the State Cabinet had approved a proposal to \u201cgive up power subsidy\u201d, the Cabinet would take a significant decision in its meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, during the Cabinet Meeting on January 24, 2018, had appealed to the big farmers to voluntarily give up their power subsidy to contribute to the government\u2019s efforts to check water depletion while underlining the fact that the move would save the vital ground water resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakhs of Punjab farmers, having more than one tubewell connection, may soon be barred from availing the State Government\u2019s power subsidy (free power). For, the Punjab Cabinet, during its scheduled July 24 meeting, is expected to take a decision in the matter. More than a year after the State Cabinet had approved a proposal to \u201cgive up power subsidy\u201d, the Cabinet would take a significant decision in its meeting on Wednesday. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, during the Cabinet Meeting on January 24, 2018, had appealed to the big farmers to voluntarily give up their power subsidy to contribute to [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284033","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=284033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}