{"id":421324,"date":"2021-06-19T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421324"},"modified":"2021-06-19T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:27:16","slug":"5-4-lakh-chennaiites-say-electricity-tariff-raise-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/5-4-lakh-chennaiites-say-electricity-tariff-raise-unreasonable\/","title":{"rendered":"5.4 lakh Chennaiites say electricity tariff raise unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Over the past one month, 5.4 lakh Chennai residents complained to Tangedco about electricity bills with exorbitant amounts. Most said that the bill amount was disproportionate to consumption and requested the power supplier to check if the meters were faulty.<\/p>\n<p>The issue<br \/>\nThe residents were handed earlier year\u2019s bills owing to the ongoing lockdown and the consequent suspension of meter reading. \u201cIf the power consumption has not been noted during the lockdown (that is, if the 60th day since previous month\u2019s calculation falls during this period), the consumers will have to pay the amount as calculated in the same month in 2019 (year without Covid),\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Over the past one month, 5.4 lakh Chennai residents complained to Tangedco about electricity bills with exorbitant amounts. Most said that the bill amount was disproportionate to consumption and requested the power supplier to check if the meters were faulty. The issue The residents were handed earlier year\u2019s bills owing to the ongoing lockdown and the consequent suspension of meter reading. \u201cIf the power consumption has not been noted during the lockdown (that is, if the 60th day since previous month\u2019s calculation falls during this period), the consumers will have to pay the amount as calculated in the same [&hellip;]<\/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-421324","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\/421324","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=421324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}