{"id":385543,"date":"2020-11-21T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385543"},"modified":"2020-11-21T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T08:02:15","slug":"maharashtra-government-orders-probe-into-electricity-bill-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-government-orders-probe-into-electricity-bill-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra government orders probe into electricity bill arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Blaming the previous BJP-led government in Maharashtra for the rise in the electricity bill arrears, state Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Friday said Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered a probe into the state- run power company&#8217;s dues.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters here, Raut said the issue of pending electricity bills was discussed by the state cabinet on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the end of March 2014, the pending electricity dues in the state were Rs 14,154.5 crore, which has gone up to Rs 59,149.8 crore,&#8221; he said, blaming the erstwhile BJP government for it.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP was in power in Maharashtra from October 2014 to 2019 and the energy department was held by the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Blaming the previous BJP-led government in Maharashtra for the rise in the electricity bill arrears, state Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Friday said Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered a probe into the state- run power company&#8217;s dues. Speaking to reporters here, Raut said the issue of pending electricity bills was discussed by the state cabinet on Thursday. &#8220;By the end of March 2014, the pending electricity dues in the state were Rs 14,154.5 crore, which has gone up to Rs 59,149.8 crore,&#8221; he said, blaming the erstwhile BJP government for it. The BJP was in power in Maharashtra [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385543","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\/385543","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=385543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}