{"id":290289,"date":"2019-09-04T05:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290289"},"modified":"2019-09-04T05:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:48:35","slug":"electricity-bills-set-to-rise-in-up-up-to-12-power-tariff-hike-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-bills-set-to-rise-in-up-up-to-12-power-tariff-hike-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity bills set to rise in UP, up to 12% power tariff hike approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) on Tuesday approved up to 12% increase in power tariff for various consumer categories.<\/p>\n<p>A hike of 8-12% in power tariff has been approved by the UPERC for domestic consumers. The actual hike in power tariff after deducting the regulatory surcharge will be 3.72% to 7.72%.<\/p>\n<p>Against the current rate of \u20b94.90 per unit for the first 150 units, the power regulator has increased the tariff by nearly 12% to \u20b95.50 per unit. The tariffs for 151-300 units, 301-500 units and above 500 units have been increased to \u20b96 per unit from \u20b95.40 at present, \u20b96.50 per unit from \u20b96.20 and \u20b97 per unit from \u20b96.50, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) on Tuesday approved up to 12% increase in power tariff for various consumer categories. A hike of 8-12% in power tariff has been approved by the UPERC for domestic consumers. The actual hike in power tariff after deducting the regulatory surcharge will be 3.72% to 7.72%. Against the current rate of \u20b94.90 per unit for the first 150 units, the power regulator has increased the tariff by nearly 12% to \u20b95.50 per unit. The tariffs for 151-300 units, 301-500 units and above 500 units have been increased to \u20b96 per unit from \u20b95.40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290289","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}