{"id":374332,"date":"2020-09-19T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374332"},"modified":"2020-09-19T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T08:25:43","slug":"himachal-assembly-session-oppn-question-power-tariff-hike-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/himachal-assembly-session-oppn-question-power-tariff-hike-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Assembly Session: Oppn question power tariff hike amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ninth day of the ongoing monsoon session of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Thursday saw opposition raising the issue of the power tariff hike saying that it has dealt a blow to the common man already facing economic crisis due to the pandemic disruption while the government argued that the hike only targeted high-end consumers while others remained unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>July onwards, the state government reduced the subsidy given to domestic electricity users consuming more than 125 units per month.<\/p>\n<p>Congress MLA Harshwardhan Chauhan, one of the members who moved a resolution to discuss the issue, said that lakhs of people from Himachal working in other states returned home during the pandemic, while businesses and employment opportunities within the state were severely disrupted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ninth day of the ongoing monsoon session of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Thursday saw opposition raising the issue of the power tariff hike saying that it has dealt a blow to the common man already facing economic crisis due to the pandemic disruption while the government argued that the hike only targeted high-end consumers while others remained unaffected. July onwards, the state government reduced the subsidy given to domestic electricity users consuming more than 125 units per month. Congress MLA Harshwardhan Chauhan, one of the members who moved a resolution to discuss the issue, said that lakhs of people [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374332","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=374332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}