{"id":336907,"date":"2020-02-11T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336907"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:24:45","slug":"free-power-to-those-with-quarterly-consumption-of-up-to-75-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/free-power-to-those-with-quarterly-consumption-of-up-to-75-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Free power to those with quarterly consumption of up to 75 units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what the critics called an effort to comeback to power in the upcoming municipal elections in the State besides generating goodwill for the next year\u2019s Assembly elections, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday walked in the footsteps of her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal by announcing free power for an earmarked section of the society among other populist schemes. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the \u201cconditional\u201d power scheme called \u2018Hasir Alo\u2019 (smiling light) State Finance Minister Amit Mitra said that the households with a quarterly consumption of up to 75 units would get electricity free of cost. The scheme is expected to benefit 35 lakh poor households Mitra said adding Rs 200 crore have been allocated for the purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what the critics called an effort to comeback to power in the upcoming municipal elections in the State besides generating goodwill for the next year\u2019s Assembly elections, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday walked in the footsteps of her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal by announcing free power for an earmarked section of the society among other populist schemes. Announcing the \u201cconditional\u201d power scheme called \u2018Hasir Alo\u2019 (smiling light) State Finance Minister Amit Mitra said that the households with a quarterly consumption of up to 75 units would get electricity free of cost. The scheme is expected to benefit [&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-336907","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\/336907","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=336907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}