{"id":428876,"date":"2021-08-03T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428876"},"modified":"2021-08-03T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:47:01","slug":"kisan-sansad-passes-resolution-against-electricity-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kisan-sansad-passes-resolution-against-electricity-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisan Sansad passes resolution against Electricity Amendment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agitating farmers\u2019 \u2018Kisan Sansad\u2019 on Monday passed a resolution against the \u2018Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 or 2021\u2019 and demanded that it should be withdrawn immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The parallel \u2018Parliament session\u201d also \u201cdirected\u201d the Government \u201cnot to table this Bill or any other Bill containing similar provisions in this or subsequent sessions of the Parliament\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectricity being a basic resource for rural production and processing including by farmers, cottage industries, for health, education, and other civic services, the policy should be to provide free, high quality, regular supply of electricity, to enable rural people and farmers to benefit from the same,\u201d it said, following deliberations on the policy directions and perspectives driving the Electricity Amendment Bill 2020, and the specific provisions of the Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agitating farmers\u2019 \u2018Kisan Sansad\u2019 on Monday passed a resolution against the \u2018Electricity Amendment Bill 2020 or 2021\u2019 and demanded that it should be withdrawn immediately. The parallel \u2018Parliament session\u201d also \u201cdirected\u201d the Government \u201cnot to table this Bill or any other Bill containing similar provisions in this or subsequent sessions of the Parliament\u201d. \u201cElectricity being a basic resource for rural production and processing including by farmers, cottage industries, for health, education, and other civic services, the policy should be to provide free, high quality, regular supply of electricity, to enable rural people and farmers to benefit from the same,\u201d it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428876","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}