{"id":398726,"date":"2021-02-03T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398726"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:35:05","slug":"will-delicense-discoms-to-end-monopolies-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-delicense-discoms-to-end-monopolies-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Will delicense discoms to end monopolies: RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government will delicense the electricity distribution sector to end monopolies, allowing any company to supply power in any area, power and renewable energy minister R K Singh told ET.<\/p>\n<p>The move will induce competition in electricity distribution and empower consumers to switch networks but will not disrupt the existing licenses, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government will delicense the electricity distribution sector to end monopolies, allowing any company to supply power in any area, power and renewable energy minister R K Singh told ET. The move will induce competition in electricity distribution and empower consumers to switch networks but will not disrupt the existing licenses, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398726","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}