{"id":405623,"date":"2021-03-18T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405623"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:28:31","slug":"power-tariff-hike-move-protested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-hike-move-protested\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff hike move protested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers and supporters of the Samajwadi Party (SP) led by State president Rabi Behera held a demonstration before the Assembly on Wednesday protesting a proposed power tariff hike in the State.<\/p>\n<p>They demanded a Whitepaper on power sector reform, 200 units free power to each consumer, CAG audit and Energy audit besides no load shedding and low voltage and submitted a memorandum to Energy Minister Dibyasankar Mishra. The OSEB which was running with Rs 300-crore loss was broken into private companies and generation transmission and distribution were separated for better energy to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Those companies also gave assurance for reduction of transmission loss to 15%. But after 26 years of reforms, the consumers are still not getting uninterrupted quality power supply at cheaper rate, alleged the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers and supporters of the Samajwadi Party (SP) led by State president Rabi Behera held a demonstration before the Assembly on Wednesday protesting a proposed power tariff hike in the State. They demanded a Whitepaper on power sector reform, 200 units free power to each consumer, CAG audit and Energy audit besides no load shedding and low voltage and submitted a memorandum to Energy Minister Dibyasankar Mishra. The OSEB which was running with Rs 300-crore loss was broken into private companies and generation transmission and distribution were separated for better energy to consumers. Those companies also gave assurance for reduction [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405623","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=405623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}