{"id":429932,"date":"2021-08-10T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429932"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T08:05:57","slug":"mamata-opposing-distribution-reforms-to-protect-monopoly-r-k-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mamata-opposing-distribution-reforms-to-protect-monopoly-r-k-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata opposing distribution reforms to protect monopoly: R K Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power minister R K Singh on Monday questioned Mamata Banerjee\u2019s motives for opposing delicensing of government discoms proposed in the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 with the aim of ushering in competition and giving consumer choice of service providers like in mobile telephony. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does she want to protect monopoly in the power distribution sector, especially when Kolkata has one of the highest tariff in the country,\u201d Singh said when asked for his reaction on the Bengal chief minister\u2019s letter to prime minister Narendra Modi describing the Bill\u2019s provisions as \u201canti-people\u201d and opposing the government\u2019s plan to introduce it in the current Parliament session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power minister R K Singh on Monday questioned Mamata Banerjee\u2019s motives for opposing delicensing of government discoms proposed in the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 with the aim of ushering in competition and giving consumer choice of service providers like in mobile telephony. \u201cWhy does she want to protect monopoly in the power distribution sector, especially when Kolkata has one of the highest tariff in the country,\u201d Singh said when asked for his reaction on the Bengal chief minister\u2019s letter to prime minister Narendra Modi describing the Bill\u2019s provisions as \u201canti-people\u201d and opposing the government\u2019s plan to introduce it [&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-429932","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\/429932","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=429932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}