{"id":406306,"date":"2021-03-22T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406306"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:13:14","slug":"aipef-opposes-centres-guidelines-for-power-distribution-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aipef-opposes-centres-guidelines-for-power-distribution-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"AIPEF opposes Centre&#8217;s guidelines for power distribution sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All India Power Engineers&#8217; Federation (AIPEF) has demanded that the state government reject the draft guidelines for a new reform-based power sector scheme aimed at providing reliable 24&#215;7 electricity to all the consumers across the country. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre, prior to the launch of a new reform-based power sector scheme, has circulated the draft guidelines to the states. The Centre has asked the states to send their comments\/suggestions, if any, by March 24. <\/p>\n<p>AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey said the reform programme was yet another attempt to privatise the power distribution in the state. He said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the 2021-22 Budget had announced Rs 3.05 lakh crore for the reform-based result-linked scheme for the period of five years for the viability of the power distribution companies (discoms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All India Power Engineers&#8217; Federation (AIPEF) has demanded that the state government reject the draft guidelines for a new reform-based power sector scheme aimed at providing reliable 24&#215;7 electricity to all the consumers across the country. The Centre, prior to the launch of a new reform-based power sector scheme, has circulated the draft guidelines to the states. The Centre has asked the states to send their comments\/suggestions, if any, by March 24. AIPEF Chairman Shailendra Dubey said the reform programme was yet another attempt to privatise the power distribution in the state. He said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in [&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-406306","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\/406306","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=406306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}