{"id":390785,"date":"2020-12-22T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390785"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:32:51","slug":"india-frames-electricity-consumers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-frames-electricity-consumers-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"India frames electricity consumers\u2019 rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Union power ministry has framed &#8216;Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020,\u2019 that calls for round-the-clock supply to consumers across the country and a compensation to be paid, in case of performance standards not met by electricity distribution companies (discoms).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are placing the consumer at the centre,&#8221; said power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh while addressing a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Power discoms are the weakest link in the electricity value chain, plagued by low collection, increase in power purchase costs, inadequate tariff hikes and subsidy disbursements, and mounting dues from government departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Union power ministry has framed &#8216;Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020,\u2019 that calls for round-the-clock supply to consumers across the country and a compensation to be paid, in case of performance standards not met by electricity distribution companies (discoms). \u201cWe are placing the consumer at the centre,&#8221; said power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh while addressing a press conference on Monday. Power discoms are the weakest link in the electricity value chain, plagued by low collection, increase in power purchase costs, inadequate tariff hikes and subsidy disbursements, and mounting dues from government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390785","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}