{"id":398609,"date":"2021-02-02T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398609"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T07:13:43","slug":"power-discom-choice-to-benefit-2-6-crore-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-discom-choice-to-benefit-2-6-crore-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Power discom choice to benefit 2.6 crore in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Power experts and consumer rights activists welcomed Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s announcement to put in place a framework to allow electricity consumers to choose from more than one distribution company. State power minister Nitin Raut, however, said there were attempts to \u201cprivatise\u201d the power sector. If implemented in Maharashtra, it will benefit more than 2.6 crore consumers who have to deal with the monopoly of MSEDCL.Said power expert Ashok Pendse, \u201cIf the Centre\u2019s plan is approved by states and gets a nod by regulatory authority, consumers can choose the discom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raut said MVA government will not allow privatisation. tnn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Power experts and consumer rights activists welcomed Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s announcement to put in place a framework to allow electricity consumers to choose from more than one distribution company. State power minister Nitin Raut, however, said there were attempts to \u201cprivatise\u201d the power sector. If implemented in Maharashtra, it will benefit more than 2.6 crore consumers who have to deal with the monopoly of MSEDCL.Said power expert Ashok Pendse, \u201cIf the Centre\u2019s plan is approved by states and gets a nod by regulatory authority, consumers can choose the discom.\u201d Raut said MVA government will not allow privatisation. [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398609","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=398609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}