{"id":373535,"date":"2020-09-14T12:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373535"},"modified":"2020-09-14T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:27:35","slug":"consumers-may-soon-get-compensation-for-power-cuts-and-defective-meters-govt-proposes-consumer-right-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/consumers-may-soon-get-compensation-for-power-cuts-and-defective-meters-govt-proposes-consumer-right-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers may soon get compensation for power cuts and defective meters \u2013 Govt proposes consumer right rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure quality of power supply to consumers, the Union power ministry has proposed a set of performance parameters for electricity distribution companies (discoms), failing which these entities will have to pay compensation for power users. To that end, the ministry has come out with a draft version of Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020 and has sought stakeholders\u2019 comments on the proposal by the end of this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure quality of power supply to consumers, the Union power ministry has proposed a set of performance parameters for electricity distribution companies (discoms), failing which these entities will have to pay compensation for power users. To that end, the ministry has come out with a draft version of Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020 and has sought stakeholders\u2019 comments on the proposal by the end of this month.<\/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-373535","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\/373535","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=373535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}