{"id":359105,"date":"2020-06-24T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359105"},"modified":"2020-06-24T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:12:23","slug":"you-can-pay-power-bills-in-instalments-maharashtra-energy-minister-tells-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/you-can-pay-power-bills-in-instalments-maharashtra-energy-minister-tells-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"You can pay power bills in instalments, Maharashtra energy minister tells consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following complaints of \u201cinflated bills\u201d in the past two-three days, Maharashtra state energy minister Nitin Raut said that consumers need not pay the lump sum bill amount, but can do so in easy instalments.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Tuesday, Raut said that the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) is not trying to \u201ccheat\u201d any consumer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs meter-reading was not possible in April and May, consumers have received bills with the actual reading of the past three months. There has also been a revision in rates as approved by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission since April 1,\u201d Raut said, adding that MSEDCL has also faced losses worth \u20b93,500 crore in the absence of physical reading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumers can pay the amount in instalments; we will not cut power supply in any case,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following complaints of \u201cinflated bills\u201d in the past two-three days, Maharashtra state energy minister Nitin Raut said that consumers need not pay the lump sum bill amount, but can do so in easy instalments. In a statement released on Tuesday, Raut said that the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) is not trying to \u201ccheat\u201d any consumer. \u201cAs meter-reading was not possible in April and May, consumers have received bills with the actual reading of the past three months. There has also been a revision in rates as approved by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission since April 1,\u201d Raut said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359105","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}