{"id":429793,"date":"2021-08-09T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429793"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:39:51","slug":"either-consumer-or-taxpayer-has-to-pay-for-power-r-k-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/either-consumer-or-taxpayer-has-to-pay-for-power-r-k-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Either consumer or taxpayer has to pay for power: R K Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power minister R K Singh believes there are no free lunches. In an interview, he tells TOI that state governments need to pay subsidies upfront if they promise free electricity to voters. In any case, this eats up allocation that would have gone to build hospitals and roads, he says, while maintaining that reforms undertaken in recent years will help clean up the sector. Excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>The power sector is often seen to have lagged since the 1991 reforms. Is it a fair assessment? <\/p>\n<p>Today, we have surplus capacity despite peak demand reaching 2 lakh megawatt. We electrified more than 2.8 crore households before deadline in the world\u2019s largest universal energy access programme. We have achieved a single synchronised national grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power minister R K Singh believes there are no free lunches. In an interview, he tells TOI that state governments need to pay subsidies upfront if they promise free electricity to voters. In any case, this eats up allocation that would have gone to build hospitals and roads, he says, while maintaining that reforms undertaken in recent years will help clean up the sector. Excerpts: The power sector is often seen to have lagged since the 1991 reforms. Is it a fair assessment? Today, we have surplus capacity despite peak demand reaching 2 lakh megawatt. We electrified more [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429793","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=429793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}