{"id":375374,"date":"2020-09-26T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375374"},"modified":"2020-09-26T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:14:20","slug":"supreme-court-turns-down-govt-plea-cerc-operations-not-likely-to-begin-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/supreme-court-turns-down-govt-plea-cerc-operations-not-likely-to-begin-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court turns down govt plea; CERC operations not likely to begin soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is likely to remain non-functional for atleast one more month as the Supreme Court on Friday reiterated that the newly appointed members of the power regulator should continue to be on leave till a member law is appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sources in the government said it has shortlisted the suitable candidates but the regulatory approvals may take time.<\/p>\n<p>The commission has been non-functional since August 28 as the apex court had asked two members of CERC to go on leave till the time a member-law is appointed. The contempt petition was filed by K K Agarwal and Advocate Ravi Sharma argued on behalf of the petitioner. Additional Solicitor General Madhvi Divan argued on behalf of the Central government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is likely to remain non-functional for atleast one more month as the Supreme Court on Friday reiterated that the newly appointed members of the power regulator should continue to be on leave till a member law is appointed. Meanwhile, sources in the government said it has shortlisted the suitable candidates but the regulatory approvals may take time. The commission has been non-functional since August 28 as the apex court had asked two members of CERC to go on leave till the time a member-law is appointed. The contempt petition was filed by [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375374","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=375374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}