{"id":400131,"date":"2021-02-11T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=400131"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:37:46","slug":"sc-gives-chandigarh-hc-three-months-to-decide-on-discom-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-gives-chandigarh-hc-three-months-to-decide-on-discom-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"SC gives Chandigarh HC three months to decide on discom privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has asked the High Court of Punjab and Haryana to expeditiously come to a final decision regarding the privatisation of the Chandigarh electricity distribution company (discom). The HC has been requested to issue an order \u201cpreferably within three months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following protests from its engineers and other workers, the High Court in December had put in abeyance the privatisation of the discom. However, the apex court in January had stayed the High Court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court, in its latest ruling on Tuesday, said that the \u201cinterim order (staying the HC order) granted by this Court on 12th January 2021 to continue till the disposal of the pending Writ Petition (against privatisation) before the High Court\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has asked the High Court of Punjab and Haryana to expeditiously come to a final decision regarding the privatisation of the Chandigarh electricity distribution company (discom). The HC has been requested to issue an order \u201cpreferably within three months.\u201d Following protests from its engineers and other workers, the High Court in December had put in abeyance the privatisation of the discom. However, the apex court in January had stayed the High Court\u2019s order. The Supreme Court, in its latest ruling on Tuesday, said that the \u201cinterim order (staying the HC order) granted by this Court on 12th [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400131","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=400131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}