{"id":383198,"date":"2020-11-09T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383198"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T06:03:47","slug":"power-tariffs-already-high-withdraw-hike-suci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariffs-already-high-withdraw-hike-suci\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariffs already high, withdraw hike: SUCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) has opposed the power tariff hike announced recently. <\/p>\n<p>In a release, the SUCI said the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) should have questioned the rationale behind electricity supply companies&#8217; proposals on power tariffs because the existing rates were already &#8220;high&#8221;. The KERC should protect the interests of the people, it added. <\/p>\n<p>According to the SUCI, an increase of 20-40 paise per unit will translate into a hike of up to Rs 200 to Rs 500 in the monthly power bill. &#8220;This is a multi-fold increase coming at a time people when are already hit hard due to coronavirus,&#8221; it said, urging the government to withdraw the decision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) has opposed the power tariff hike announced recently. In a release, the SUCI said the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) should have questioned the rationale behind electricity supply companies&#8217; proposals on power tariffs because the existing rates were already &#8220;high&#8221;. The KERC should protect the interests of the people, it added. According to the SUCI, an increase of 20-40 paise per unit will translate into a hike of up to Rs 200 to Rs 500 in the monthly power bill. &#8220;This is a multi-fold increase coming at a time people when are already [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383198","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=383198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}