{"id":376818,"date":"2020-10-05T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376818"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T07:00:23","slug":"no-increase-in-power-tariffs-rules-state-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-increase-in-power-tariffs-rules-state-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"No increase in power tariffs, rules state regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JSERC) has given consumers a reason to smile by turning down the state discom\u2019s plea to hike tariffs for 2020-21 fiscal in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In a formal announcement on Friday, the regulator said that existing power tariffs of 2019-20 would continue to be applicable for the current fiscal as well and would be effective October 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This means, Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (JBVNL), the state-owned distribution company, will continue to charge Rs 5.75 per unit for rural domestic consumers with a fixed monthly charge of Rs 20. For urban consumers the charges will be Rs 6.25 per unit and a fixed monthly charge of Rs 75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JSERC) has given consumers a reason to smile by turning down the state discom\u2019s plea to hike tariffs for 2020-21 fiscal in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a formal announcement on Friday, the regulator said that existing power tariffs of 2019-20 would continue to be applicable for the current fiscal as well and would be effective October 1, 2020. This means, Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (JBVNL), the state-owned distribution company, will continue to charge Rs 5.75 per unit for rural domestic consumers with a fixed monthly charge of Rs 20. For urban [&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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376818","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=376818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}