{"id":347309,"date":"2020-04-18T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T06:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347309"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T06:05:55","slug":"govt-plans-major-reforms-in-electricity-act-to-address-critical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-plans-major-reforms-in-electricity-act-to-address-critical-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans major reforms in Electricity Act to address \u201ccritical issues\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has proposed major reforms such as provisions for distribution franchise, removal of regulatory assets, strengthening payment security mechanisms and the incorporation of a separate renewable energy policy, as it seeks to amend the Electricity Act, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier draft version of the amendments to the Act was floated by the Union power ministry in 2018, but the recommendations in the previous version could not be incorporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has proposed major reforms such as provisions for distribution franchise, removal of regulatory assets, strengthening payment security mechanisms and the incorporation of a separate renewable energy policy, as it seeks to amend the Electricity Act, 2003. An earlier draft version of the amendments to the Act was floated by the Union power ministry in 2018, but the recommendations in the previous version could not be incorporated.<\/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-347309","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\/347309","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=347309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}