{"id":424193,"date":"2021-07-05T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424193"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T03:46:10","slug":"navjot-singh-sidhu-pitches-for-300-units-of-free-power-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/navjot-singh-sidhu-pitches-for-300-units-of-free-power-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Singh Sidhu pitches for 300 units of free power in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toeing Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal&#8217;s &#8216;mantra&#8217; to woo the people in Punjab by announcing pre-poll sops of free and subsidised electricity, Congress leader and former state minister Navjot Sidhu on Sunday advocated for a 24-hour supply with no power cuts and free power up to 300 units. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Punjab already provides Rs 9,000 crore subsidy but we must do more for domestic and industrial consumer giving power at Rs 3-5 per unit instead of surcharge inflated Rs 10-12 per unit, along 24-hour supply with no power cuts and free power (up to 300 units),&#8221; Sidhu said in a tweet, adding, &#8220;It is definitely achievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toeing Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal&#8217;s &#8216;mantra&#8217; to woo the people in Punjab by announcing pre-poll sops of free and subsidised electricity, Congress leader and former state minister Navjot Sidhu on Sunday advocated for a 24-hour supply with no power cuts and free power up to 300 units. &#8220;Punjab already provides Rs 9,000 crore subsidy but we must do more for domestic and industrial consumer giving power at Rs 3-5 per unit instead of surcharge inflated Rs 10-12 per unit, along 24-hour supply with no power cuts and free power (up to 300 units),&#8221; [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424193","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=424193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}