{"id":374832,"date":"2020-09-23T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374832"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:26:08","slug":"direct-benefit-transfer-system-for-power-subsidies-faces-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/direct-benefit-transfer-system-for-power-subsidies-faces-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct benefit transfer system for power subsidies faces criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill released by the Centre is facing stiff opposition from stakeholders, with critics stating that making the proposed system viable will be a difficult task. <\/p>\n<p>The bill proposes a direct benefit transfer (DBT) system for electricity subsidies, akin to that used for LPG. Currently, state governments transfer subsidies directly to power distributors (discoms) who collect subsidised fees from consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill released by the Centre is facing stiff opposition from stakeholders, with critics stating that making the proposed system viable will be a difficult task. The bill proposes a direct benefit transfer (DBT) system for electricity subsidies, akin to that used for LPG. Currently, state governments transfer subsidies directly to power distributors (discoms) who collect subsidised fees from consumers.<\/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-374832","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\/374832","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=374832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}