{"id":382284,"date":"2020-11-04T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T05:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382284"},"modified":"2020-11-04T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:19:18","slug":"centres-draft-electricity-rules-overrides-state-regulators-jurisdiction-say-cerc-wb-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centres-draft-electricity-rules-overrides-state-regulators-jurisdiction-say-cerc-wb-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre\u2019s draft electricity rules overrides state, regulators\u2019 jurisdiction, say CERC, WB govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has objected to the Union power ministry\u2019s proposed rules for a late payment surcharge on electricity, terming it the Centre\u2019s attempt to intrude into the jurisdiction of the state and the regulatory commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has virtually termed the rules, null, saying that \u201crules must be made to enable legislation\u201d of the Electricity Act (EA) 2003. <\/p>\n<p>It said the rules seek to make changes to the provisions of the Act and encroach on the powers of the regulator by fixing surcharges and inter-state transmission charges. \u201cThe objective of the EA 2003 is to distance the regulatory [functions] from the government vesting it on the regulatory commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has objected to the Union power ministry\u2019s proposed rules for a late payment surcharge on electricity, terming it the Centre\u2019s attempt to intrude into the jurisdiction of the state and the regulatory commission. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has virtually termed the rules, null, saying that \u201crules must be made to enable legislation\u201d of the Electricity Act (EA) 2003. It said the rules seek to make changes to the provisions of the Act and encroach on the powers of the regulator by fixing surcharges and inter-state transmission charges. \u201cThe objective of the EA 2003 is [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382284","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=382284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}