{"id":424259,"date":"2021-07-05T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T04:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424259"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:01:57","slug":"capt-pushed-state-into-darkness-sukhbir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/capt-pushed-state-into-darkness-sukhbir\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt pushed state into darkness: Sukhbir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said the erstwhile SAD-BJP government had made Punjab a power surplus state, but chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh pushed it back into darkness. <\/p>\n<p>His remarks came a day after Amarinder said his government would soon announce a legal strategy to counter the \u201cill-conceived\u201d power purchase agreements signed during the SAD-BJP rule which had put an \u201catrociously unnecessary\u201d financial burden on the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said of the 139 power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed during the SAD-BJP rule, 17 were enough to cater to the state\u2019s full electricity demand. The remaining 122 PPAs for 1,314 MWs of expensive power were inexplicably signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said the erstwhile SAD-BJP government had made Punjab a power surplus state, but chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh pushed it back into darkness. His remarks came a day after Amarinder said his government would soon announce a legal strategy to counter the \u201cill-conceived\u201d power purchase agreements signed during the SAD-BJP rule which had put an \u201catrociously unnecessary\u201d financial burden on the state. He said of the 139 power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed during the SAD-BJP rule, 17 were enough to cater to the state\u2019s full electricity demand. The remaining 122 PPAs [&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-424259","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\/424259","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=424259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}