{"id":393112,"date":"2021-01-04T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393112"},"modified":"2021-01-04T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:41:04","slug":"govt-to-provide-liberal-funding-to-make-jk-power-surplus-union-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-to-provide-liberal-funding-to-make-jk-power-surplus-union-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to provide liberal funding to make J&amp;K power-surplus: Union minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stating that Jammu and Kashmir is a challenge as far as providing round-the-clock electricity to consumers is concerned, Union minister R K Singh on Sunday said the Centre would spend &#8220;liberally&#8221; to tap the immense potential of the Union Territory in the sector to make it a power-surplus region. <\/p>\n<p>However, he said a conducive atmosphere to facilitate large-scale investments and improving the work culture are imperative to bring Jammu and Kashmir at par with other parts of the country, after it lagged behind due to &#8220;corruption&#8221; during the previous regimes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is painful that Jammu and Kashmir, despite having the best available resources in the country to generate power, is lagging behind in providing round-the-clock electricity to consumers&#8230;the previous governments are directly responsible for the present state of affairs,&#8221; Singh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stating that Jammu and Kashmir is a challenge as far as providing round-the-clock electricity to consumers is concerned, Union minister R K Singh on Sunday said the Centre would spend &#8220;liberally&#8221; to tap the immense potential of the Union Territory in the sector to make it a power-surplus region. However, he said a conducive atmosphere to facilitate large-scale investments and improving the work culture are imperative to bring Jammu and Kashmir at par with other parts of the country, after it lagged behind due to &#8220;corruption&#8221; during the previous regimes. &#8220;It is painful that Jammu and Kashmir, despite having the [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393112","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=393112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}