{"id":395280,"date":"2021-01-14T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395280"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:21:49","slug":"maharashtra-cabinet-final-nod-to-pms-solar-pump-scheme-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-cabinet-final-nod-to-pms-solar-pump-scheme-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Cabinet: Final nod to PM\u2019s solar pump scheme on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state Cabinet witnessed heated scenes with ministers from across party lines opposing a new proposal by the state energy department under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Urja Suraksha Evem Utthan Mahaabhiyaan (PM KUSUM) scheme. Last week, the Cabinet had given its nod to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s flagship scheme for installation of 1 lakh solar-powered farm pumps.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, when the proposal for the confirmation of minutes came up, department Minister Nitin Raut from the Congress sought an additional Rs 180 crore nod for the installation and GST component of the solar pumps.<\/p>\n<p>But ministers from his own party, including Sunil Kedar, Yashomati Thakur and Vijay Wadettiwar, NCP\u2019s Ajit Pawar and Shiv Sena\u2019s Sanjay Rathod resisted the proposal, questioning the scheme\u2019s effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state Cabinet witnessed heated scenes with ministers from across party lines opposing a new proposal by the state energy department under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Urja Suraksha Evem Utthan Mahaabhiyaan (PM KUSUM) scheme. Last week, the Cabinet had given its nod to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s flagship scheme for installation of 1 lakh solar-powered farm pumps. On Wednesday, when the proposal for the confirmation of minutes came up, department Minister Nitin Raut from the Congress sought an additional Rs 180 crore nod for the installation and GST component of the solar pumps. But ministers from his own party, including [&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-395280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395280","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=395280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}