{"id":366670,"date":"2020-08-07T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366670"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:53:02","slug":"self-help-groups-to-collect-electricity-bills-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/self-help-groups-to-collect-electricity-bills-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Help Groups to collect electricity bills in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to augment its billing efficiency and rev up its revenue, the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation has signed an agreement with National Rural Livelihood Mission to enable Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to collect electricity bill payments from the citizens at their doorsteps. The SHGs will get Rs 20 for a bill up to Rs 2,000 and 1% up to Rs 49,999.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, UPPCL Chairman Arvind Kumar said this would enable Self Help Groups to create a prepaid wallet with UPPCL by depositing money. Once SHGs become agents they will be able to receive bill payments on behalf of UPPCL and give receipts. \u201cThis is UPPCL\u2019s way to empower women and help them generate extra income,\u201d the chairman tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to augment its billing efficiency and rev up its revenue, the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation has signed an agreement with National Rural Livelihood Mission to enable Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to collect electricity bill payments from the citizens at their doorsteps. The SHGs will get Rs 20 for a bill up to Rs 2,000 and 1% up to Rs 49,999. In a tweet, UPPCL Chairman Arvind Kumar said this would enable Self Help Groups to create a prepaid wallet with UPPCL by depositing money. Once SHGs become agents they will be able to receive bill payments on behalf [&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-366670","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\/366670","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=366670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}