{"id":389973,"date":"2020-12-17T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389973"},"modified":"2020-12-17T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:46:04","slug":"bihar-struggles-with-electricity-theft-non-payment-of-dues-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bihar-struggles-with-electricity-theft-non-payment-of-dues-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar struggles with electricity theft, non-payment of dues, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago on electricity bill payment in Bihar has found that the habit of power theft is \u201ca consequence of society treating electricity as a right rather than a commodity to be bought and sold\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted recently in poor and rural areas across the state, found that the \u201clink between payment and supply had been severed\u201d. The study said \u201ccustomers on average received about 17 hours of electricity in a day, and many paid less than 20 per cent of their share. Most strikingly, the areas that paid more didn\u2019t necessarily get more power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago on electricity bill payment in Bihar has found that the habit of power theft is \u201ca consequence of society treating electricity as a right rather than a commodity to be bought and sold\u201d. The study, conducted recently in poor and rural areas across the state, found that the \u201clink between payment and supply had been severed\u201d. The study said \u201ccustomers on average received about 17 hours of electricity in a day, and many paid less than 20 per cent of their share. Most strikingly, the areas that paid [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389973","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=389973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}