{"id":390870,"date":"2020-12-22T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390870"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:46:31","slug":"electricity-rules-timely-connection-24x7-supply-fines-in-place-for-discoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-rules-timely-connection-24x7-supply-fines-in-place-for-discoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Rules: Timely connection, 24\u00d77 supply; fines in place for discoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Monday notified rules that would allow consumers in India to access continuous supply of quality, reliable electricity. The Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020 serve to \u201cempower\u201d citizens by laying down rights that make distribution companies more accountable to consumers. There are exceptions to these rules for certain categories, according to the Ministry of Power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe distribution licensee shall supply 24\u00d77 power to all consumers. However, the Commission may specify lower hours of supply for some categories of consumers like agriculture,\u201d stated the Ministry in a release. \u201cI would call this almost historic. It is important for the power system because, for the first time, we are placing the consumer at the centre,\u201d said Power Minister RK Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Monday notified rules that would allow consumers in India to access continuous supply of quality, reliable electricity. The Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020 serve to \u201cempower\u201d citizens by laying down rights that make distribution companies more accountable to consumers. There are exceptions to these rules for certain categories, according to the Ministry of Power. \u201cThe distribution licensee shall supply 24\u00d77 power to all consumers. However, the Commission may specify lower hours of supply for some categories of consumers like agriculture,\u201d stated the Ministry in a release. \u201cI would call this almost historic. It is important for [&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-390870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390870","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=390870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}