{"id":427405,"date":"2021-07-26T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T03:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427405"},"modified":"2021-07-26T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:51:31","slug":"barring-farmers-all-in-uttar-pradesh-to-have-smart-prepaid-meters-in-next-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/barring-farmers-all-in-uttar-pradesh-to-have-smart-prepaid-meters-in-next-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Barring farmers, all in Uttar Pradesh to have smart prepaid meters in next 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barring farmers, all other electricity consumers in Uttar Pradesh, like in most other states, will necessarily have prepaid smart meters on their premises in next two-three years with the facility of recharging these meters through a mobile phone under the Centre\u2019s new Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme. <\/p>\n<p>The Union power ministry has issued the office memorandum to states, explaining the scheme to them in detail and informing them of the terms and conditions required to avail the new initiative having a budgetary outlay of \u20b93,03,758 crore. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident\u2019s sanction is conveyed for the implementation of the \u201cRevamped Distribution Sector Scheme\u2014A Reforms-based and Results-linked Scheme\u201d with the objective of improving the quality and reliability of power supply to consumers through a financially sustainable and operationally-efficient distribution sector,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barring farmers, all other electricity consumers in Uttar Pradesh, like in most other states, will necessarily have prepaid smart meters on their premises in next two-three years with the facility of recharging these meters through a mobile phone under the Centre\u2019s new Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme. The Union power ministry has issued the office memorandum to states, explaining the scheme to them in detail and informing them of the terms and conditions required to avail the new initiative having a budgetary outlay of \u20b93,03,758 crore. \u201cPresident\u2019s sanction is conveyed for the implementation of the \u201cRevamped Distribution Sector Scheme\u2014A Reforms-based 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-427405","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\/427405","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=427405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}