{"id":428098,"date":"2021-07-30T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428098"},"modified":"2021-07-30T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T06:18:00","slug":"montek-led-panel-recommends-rationalisation-of-power-subsidy-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/montek-led-panel-recommends-rationalisation-of-power-subsidy-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Montek-led panel recommends rationalisation of power subsidy in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expert panel headed by former deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has strongly backed power sector reforms, including rationalisation of subsidy, suggested by the 15th Finance Commission to improve the fiscal health of Punjab. <\/p>\n<p>The expert group, in its final report on \u201cMedium and Long Term Post-Covid Economic Strategy for Punjab\u201d submitted recently, has recommended that the state government should undertake power sector reforms along the lines indicated by the Finance Commission (FC). \u201cPolitical economy considerations are extremely important, but it is also necessary to recognise that unsustainable fiscal practices will harm future generations and cannot be continued indefinitely,\u201d it said, while making the recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert panel headed by former deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has strongly backed power sector reforms, including rationalisation of subsidy, suggested by the 15th Finance Commission to improve the fiscal health of Punjab. The expert group, in its final report on \u201cMedium and Long Term Post-Covid Economic Strategy for Punjab\u201d submitted recently, has recommended that the state government should undertake power sector reforms along the lines indicated by the Finance Commission (FC). \u201cPolitical economy considerations are extremely important, but it is also necessary to recognise that unsustainable fiscal practices will harm future generations and cannot be [&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-428098","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\/428098","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=428098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}