{"id":409674,"date":"2021-04-07T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=409674"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T06:42:18","slug":"pil-in-high-court-for-power-tariff-hike-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pil-in-high-court-for-power-tariff-hike-rollback\/","title":{"rendered":"PIL in High Court for power tariff hike rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CUTTACK: A PIL has been filed by Berhampur-based Bharatiya Bikash Parishad in the Orissa High Court on Monday seeking quashing of Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) notification on power tariff hike.The new power tariff for the 2021-22 financial year has became effective from April 4. As per the OERC notification, there has been a rise of 30 paise per KWH\/kVAh for all consumers other than those falling under the categories of BPL and irrigation. The prescribed hike amounts to a 5.60 per cent rise in overall retail supply tariff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUTTACK: A PIL has been filed by Berhampur-based Bharatiya Bikash Parishad in the Orissa High Court on Monday seeking quashing of Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) notification on power tariff hike.The new power tariff for the 2021-22 financial year has became effective from April 4. As per the OERC notification, there has been a rise of 30 paise per KWH\/kVAh for all consumers other than those falling under the categories of BPL and irrigation. The prescribed hike amounts to a 5.60 per cent rise in overall retail supply tariff.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409674","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=409674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}