{"id":408200,"date":"2021-03-31T10:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408200"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T06:07:35","slug":"roll-back-power-tariff-hike-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/roll-back-power-tariff-hike-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll back power tariff hike: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati demanded rollback of th hike in electricity tariff in the State Assembly on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Bahinipati said the increase of 30 paise per unit would be a burden on the people, who are already feeling traumatised because of the Covid pandemic.\u201cI don\u2019t know whether the decision has been taken with the Energy Minister\u2019s knowledge, but I urge the Chief Minister to withdraw the hike as no other State has taken such a drastic decision,\u201d Bahinipati stated. <\/p>\n<p>He further added that since the Tata company has taken over power distribution, the people are feeling the pinch of overburden of electricity rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati demanded rollback of th hike in electricity tariff in the State Assembly on Tuesday. Bahinipati said the increase of 30 paise per unit would be a burden on the people, who are already feeling traumatised because of the Covid pandemic.\u201cI don\u2019t know whether the decision has been taken with the Energy Minister\u2019s knowledge, but I urge the Chief Minister to withdraw the hike as no other State has taken such a drastic decision,\u201d Bahinipati stated. He further added that since the Tata company has taken over power distribution, the people are feeling the pinch of [&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-408200","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\/408200","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=408200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}