{"id":375418,"date":"2020-09-26T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375418"},"modified":"2020-09-26T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T05:46:37","slug":"andhra-farmers-demand-free-power-scheme-not-direct-benefit-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/andhra-farmers-demand-free-power-scheme-not-direct-benefit-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra farmers demand free power scheme, not direct benefit transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Andhra Pradesh Farmers Union on Friday staged a protest against the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and demanded the old free power scheme in Krishna district, <\/p>\n<p>The Farmers Union alleged that most farmers use current pump sets for agricultural activities and if meters will be set up for pump sets to measure the power consumed by them, the charges will be credited to the farmers&#8217; account. <\/p>\n<p>In case, power charges increase in future and the government fails to credit farmers&#8217; accounts with the required amounts when power bills are due, the farmers may fall into debt and eventually lose their power connections which will lead to losses to the farmers and may result in suicides. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Andhra Pradesh Farmers Union on Friday staged a protest against the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and demanded the old free power scheme in Krishna district, The Farmers Union alleged that most farmers use current pump sets for agricultural activities and if meters will be set up for pump sets to measure the power consumed by them, the charges will be credited to the farmers&#8217; account. In case, power charges increase in future and the government fails to credit farmers&#8217; accounts with the required amounts when power bills are due, the farmers may fall into debt and eventually [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375418","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=375418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}