{"id":429975,"date":"2021-08-10T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429975"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T08:06:03","slug":"didi-opposing-power-bill-to-aid-pvt-firm-mantri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/didi-opposing-power-bill-to-aid-pvt-firm-mantri\/","title":{"rendered":"Didi opposing power bill to aid pvt firm: Mantri"},"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. <\/p>\n<p>Though Singh did not name any discom, he was clearly referring to the Sanjeev Goenka group company CESC that has a monopoly on distribution in Kolkata.<\/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. Though Singh did not name any discom, he was clearly referring to the Sanjeev Goenka group company CESC that has a monopoly on distribution in Kolkata.<\/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-429975","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\/429975","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=429975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}