{"id":370785,"date":"2020-08-29T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370785"},"modified":"2020-08-29T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:03:04","slug":"pandemic-on-no-power-tariff-hike-this-year-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pandemic-on-no-power-tariff-hike-this-year-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic on, no power tariff hike this year in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a major relief to nearly 62 lakh consumers, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Friday announced that the power tariff for 2020-21 would not be hiked in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, there would be a slight increase in the monthly power bill due to an increase in the \u201cpension trust surcharge\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The power discoms had petitioned DERC to grant them \u201crelief to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 and lockdown conditions as it may deem fit and proper\u201d. \u201cThere is no change in the tariff,\u201d DERC chairman Justice (Retd) SS Chauhan said. \u201cThey (discoms) have also faced losses and we have tried to maintain a balance. But we have laid more emphasis on the interest of consumers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a major relief to nearly 62 lakh consumers, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Friday announced that the power tariff for 2020-21 would not be hiked in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, there would be a slight increase in the monthly power bill due to an increase in the \u201cpension trust surcharge\u201d. The power discoms had petitioned DERC to grant them \u201crelief to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 and lockdown conditions as it may deem fit and proper\u201d. \u201cThere is no change in the tariff,\u201d DERC chairman Justice (Retd) SS Chauhan said. \u201cThey (discoms) have also [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370785","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=370785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}