{"id":375488,"date":"2020-09-26T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375488"},"modified":"2020-09-26T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:00:56","slug":"opposition-demands-immediate-rollback-of-power-tariff-hike-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opposition-demands-immediate-rollback-of-power-tariff-hike-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition demands immediate rollback of power tariff hike in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: The Opposition BJP and Congress mounted an attack on the State Government for effecting hike in power tariff amid Covid pandemic situation and threatened to launch a massive protest if the order of the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) is not reversed forthwith.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP on Friday said the State Government is penalising the consumers who are struggling for survival due to economic disruption. \u201cThe Government decided to further burden the consumers by increasing the power tariff when the Centre provided much needed relief to the discoms to overcome the financial crisis due to the pandemic situation,\u201d State BJP spokesperson Golak Mohapatra said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: The Opposition BJP and Congress mounted an attack on the State Government for effecting hike in power tariff amid Covid pandemic situation and threatened to launch a massive protest if the order of the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) is not reversed forthwith. The BJP on Friday said the State Government is penalising the consumers who are struggling for survival due to economic disruption. \u201cThe Government decided to further burden the consumers by increasing the power tariff when the Centre provided much needed relief to the discoms to overcome the financial crisis due to the pandemic situation,\u201d State BJP [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375488","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\/375488","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=375488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}