{"id":422120,"date":"2021-06-24T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T03:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=422120"},"modified":"2021-06-24T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T05:06:59","slug":"dont-harass-small-defaulters-during-disconnection-drive-up-power-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dont-harass-small-defaulters-during-disconnection-drive-up-power-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t harass small defaulters during disconnection drive: UP power min"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy minister Shrikant Sharma on Wednesday directed discom managing directors (MDs) to personally monitor power disconnection drives and ensure that small defaulters were not harassed. <\/p>\n<p>Holding a meeting here he said focus should be on big defaulters and that too after giving them an opportunity for clearing their dues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnock at big defaulters\u2019 door for three months asking them to pay their dues before snapping their supply,\u201d he said. \u201cDisconnection per se is not the solution to the problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The minister directed MDs to regularly monitor disposal of power supply related complaints received on the 1912 helpline and through social media platforms and advised them to carry out random reality checks to know the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy minister Shrikant Sharma on Wednesday directed discom managing directors (MDs) to personally monitor power disconnection drives and ensure that small defaulters were not harassed. Holding a meeting here he said focus should be on big defaulters and that too after giving them an opportunity for clearing their dues. \u201cKnock at big defaulters\u2019 door for three months asking them to pay their dues before snapping their supply,\u201d he said. \u201cDisconnection per se is not the solution to the problem,\u201d he added. The minister directed MDs to regularly monitor disposal of power supply related complaints received on the 1912 helpline and [&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-422120","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\/422120","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=422120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}