{"id":297514,"date":"2019-10-22T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297514"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:47:53","slug":"prepaid-electricity-meters-early-results-leave-more-to-be-desired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/prepaid-electricity-meters-early-results-leave-more-to-be-desired\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepaid electricity meters: Early results leave more to be desired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prepaid electricity meters were touted to be a major tool to aid the efforts of distribution entities (discoms) to cut pilferage. While a<br \/>\nclutch of states has tried rolling out this practice, early results such as those from Rajasthan show that it is easier said than done. In its initial phase, prepaid meters have failed to achieve the desired result of restricting under-recoveries from state government departments in Rajasthan, sources from the state energy department told FE. This is because discoms in the state are practically not being able to cut the power supply of government departments even if they fail to recharge them when required.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said there have been instances of prepaid meters getting removed from various public buildings that house courts and health centres due to the inability of the system to adapt to the new payment processes. This has happened in spite of discoms offering 5% discount on power bills for using prepaid meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepaid electricity meters were touted to be a major tool to aid the efforts of distribution entities (discoms) to cut pilferage. While a clutch of states has tried rolling out this practice, early results such as those from Rajasthan show that it is easier said than done. In its initial phase, prepaid meters have failed to achieve the desired result of restricting under-recoveries from state government departments in Rajasthan, sources from the state energy department told FE. This is because discoms in the state are practically not being able to cut the power supply of government departments even if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297514","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}