{"id":390748,"date":"2020-12-22T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390748"},"modified":"2020-12-22T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:09:15","slug":"government-promulgates-rules-for-right-of-power-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-promulgates-rules-for-right-of-power-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Government promulgates rules for right of power consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Electricity consumers will get compensation from power distribution companies for long power cuts, delay in granting electricity connections and other related services.<\/p>\n<p>The government has promulgated rules for rights of electricity consumers which provide for penalties upto Rs 1 lakh on power distribution companies, Union power minister R K Singh told media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rules provide for compensation for no supply to a consumer beyond a particular duration, to be specified by the electricity commission and for interruptions in supply beyond limits specified by the commission. <\/p>\n<p>They provide for stringent timelines for connection, disconnection, reconnection and shifting. Delay in change in consumer category or load; change in consumer details; replacement of defective meters; period within which bills are to be served and bill related complaints will attract penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Electricity consumers will get compensation from power distribution companies for long power cuts, delay in granting electricity connections and other related services. The government has promulgated rules for rights of electricity consumers which provide for penalties upto Rs 1 lakh on power distribution companies, Union power minister R K Singh told media on Tuesday. The rules provide for compensation for no supply to a consumer beyond a particular duration, to be specified by the electricity commission and for interruptions in supply beyond limits specified by the commission. They provide for stringent timelines for connection, disconnection, reconnection and shifting. [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390748","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=390748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}