{"id":295290,"date":"2019-10-07T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295290"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T06:10:03","slug":"we-are-working-on-a-new-electricity-act-says-power-minister-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/we-are-working-on-a-new-electricity-act-says-power-minister-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"We are working on a new Electricity Act, says Power Minister RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Act of the country must be a legislation which provides for the rights of all stakeholders, says RK Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Power and New and Renewable Energy. Keeping this mind, Singh and his team in the Power Ministry are working on a new Act. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main focus of the new law would be enhancing the rights of all the stakeholders,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Singh, who is also formulating a new tariff policy, in his second stint as Power Minister, is by now well versed with the challenges including negotiating with the State governments. In conversation with BusinessLine, he said \u201cDiscoms cannot pass on their inefficiencies to consumers by levying higher tariffs. The cross subsidy needs to come down.\u201d Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Act of the country must be a legislation which provides for the rights of all stakeholders, says RK Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Power and New and Renewable Energy. Keeping this mind, Singh and his team in the Power Ministry are working on a new Act. \u201cThe main focus of the new law would be enhancing the rights of all the stakeholders,\u201d he said. Singh, who is also formulating a new tariff policy, in his second stint as Power Minister, is by now well versed with the challenges including negotiating with the State governments. In conversation [&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-295290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295290","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=295290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}