{"id":295867,"date":"2019-10-14T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295867"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:12:37","slug":"countrys-future-more-important-than-polls-power-minister-r-k-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/countrys-future-more-important-than-polls-power-minister-r-k-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Country&#8217;s future more important than polls: Power minister R K Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy R K Singh on Friday termed state-owned power distribution companies, or discoms, as \u201cinefficient structures\u201d and asked them to become wholesalers of power and hire private companies as retail suppliers. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the inauguration of the two-day State Power Ministers\u2019 Conference being hosted near the Statue of Unity here in Gujarat, Singh said consumers deserved affordable rates and the option of choosing their power supplier. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right to good service and the right of choice are enshrined in the Constitution. You can\u2019t overcharge industrial consumers. How can states get investment when you are charging industry ~8-9 per unit?\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Suggesting a new model of power supply, Singh said states could become the owner and wholesaler of power supply and have private franchisees to sell it to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy R K Singh on Friday termed state-owned power distribution companies, or discoms, as \u201cinefficient structures\u201d and asked them to become wholesalers of power and hire private companies as retail suppliers. Speaking at the inauguration of the two-day State Power Ministers\u2019 Conference being hosted near the Statue of Unity here in Gujarat, Singh said consumers deserved affordable rates and the option of choosing their power supplier. \u201cThe right to good service and the right of choice are enshrined in the Constitution. You can\u2019t overcharge industrial consumers. How can states get investment when [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295867","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=295867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}