{"id":424258,"date":"2021-07-05T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T04:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424258"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:02:12","slug":"sidhu-pushes-for-free-300-units-of-power-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sidhu-pushes-for-free-300-units-of-power-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidhu pushes for free 300 units of power in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH Congress minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who hit out at chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh recently over his handling of power crisis, on Sunday pushed for free electricity up to 300 units and round-the-clock power supply to consumers in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Sidhu said that domestic industrial consumers should be given electricity at cheaper rates. \u201cPunjab already provides \u20b99000 crore subsidy but we must do more for domestic and industrial consumer by giving power at \u20b93-5 per unit, instead of surcharge inflated \u20b910-12 per unit, along with 24-hour supply with no power-cuts &amp; free power (Upto 300 Units)..It is definitely achievable,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH Congress minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who hit out at chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh recently over his handling of power crisis, on Sunday pushed for free electricity up to 300 units and round-the-clock power supply to consumers in the state. Sidhu said that domestic industrial consumers should be given electricity at cheaper rates. \u201cPunjab already provides \u20b99000 crore subsidy but we must do more for domestic and industrial consumer by giving power at \u20b93-5 per unit, instead of surcharge inflated \u20b910-12 per unit, along with 24-hour supply with no power-cuts &amp; free power (Upto 300 Units)..It is definitely achievable,\u201d [&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-424258","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\/424258","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=424258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}