{"id":434032,"date":"2021-09-03T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434032"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:01:42","slug":"best-pushes-for-e-payments-to-save-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/best-pushes-for-e-payments-to-save-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST pushes for e-payments to save environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: More than 31,000 electricity consumers in island city have switched to digital payments in the past two months, with a total number of such consumers going over 6.6 lakh on Thursday, announced BEST general manager Lokesh Chandra. <\/p>\n<p>This is 63 per cent of the total consumer base in Mumbai and a paperless, e-payment system is good for the environment, he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We provide a discount of Rs 120 annually (Rs 10 a month) to consumers across island city if they opted for e-bill. The response has been overwhelming and more than 31,000 opted for the scheme,&#8221; Chandra said. <\/p>\n<p>He further said that soon, BEST consumers can walk into any SBI branch and pay the bill by cash or cheque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: More than 31,000 electricity consumers in island city have switched to digital payments in the past two months, with a total number of such consumers going over 6.6 lakh on Thursday, announced BEST general manager Lokesh Chandra. This is 63 per cent of the total consumer base in Mumbai and a paperless, e-payment system is good for the environment, he said. &#8220;We provide a discount of Rs 120 annually (Rs 10 a month) to consumers across island city if they opted for e-bill. The response has been overwhelming and more than 31,000 opted for the scheme,&#8221; Chandra said. He [&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-434032","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\/434032","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=434032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}