{"id":372143,"date":"2020-09-05T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372143"},"modified":"2020-09-05T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:35:27","slug":"pilot-project-for-free-power-dbt-to-be-in-srikakulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilot-project-for-free-power-dbt-to-be-in-srikakulam\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot project for free power DBT to be in Srikakulam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet, which met on Thursday, approved the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of free power subsidy for agricultural connections and resolved to implement it on a pilot basis in Srikakulam district before expanding it to the rest of the state from April 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy promised free power for agriculture would continue to be provided and no connections would be removed. Further, around 1 lakh unauthorised farm power connections will be regularised. The cost of setting up meters for agriculture power connections will be borne by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet, which met on Thursday, approved the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of free power subsidy for agricultural connections and resolved to implement it on a pilot basis in Srikakulam district before expanding it to the rest of the state from April 1, 2021. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy promised free power for agriculture would continue to be provided and no connections would be removed. Further, around 1 lakh unauthorised farm power connections will be regularised. The cost of setting up meters for agriculture power connections will be borne by the government.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372143","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=372143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}