{"id":417736,"date":"2021-05-31T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T05:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417736"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T06:42:55","slug":"power-subsidy-bill-arrears-cross-10-of-punjabs-total-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-subsidy-bill-arrears-cross-10-of-punjabs-total-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Power subsidy bill, arrears cross 10% of Punjab\u2019s total budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political compulsions and poll promises are set to take a huge toll on the state\u2019s finances in the election year as the power subsidy bill has steadily risen to \u20b917,796 crore, which is more than 10% of Punjab\u2019s total budget. <\/p>\n<p>The budget approved for the current fiscal is \u20b91,68,015 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has worked out a subsidy of \u20b910,668 crore payable to different consumer categories. It comprises \u20b96,735 crore for agriculture pump set consumers, \u20b91,627 crore for scheduled caste, backward class and below poverty line domestic consumers and \u20b92,266 crore for industrial consumers. <\/p>\n<p>The large supply consumers are to get \u20b91,928 crore, medium power ones will get \u20b9197 crore and \u20b9142 crore in subsidies has been allocated to small power consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political compulsions and poll promises are set to take a huge toll on the state\u2019s finances in the election year as the power subsidy bill has steadily risen to \u20b917,796 crore, which is more than 10% of Punjab\u2019s total budget. The budget approved for the current fiscal is \u20b91,68,015 crore. The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has worked out a subsidy of \u20b910,668 crore payable to different consumer categories. It comprises \u20b96,735 crore for agriculture pump set consumers, \u20b91,627 crore for scheduled caste, backward class and below poverty line domestic consumers and \u20b92,266 crore for industrial consumers. The large [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417736","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=417736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}