{"id":436778,"date":"2021-09-18T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436778"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:06:23","slug":"states-told-to-set-up-district-electricity-committees-to-monitor-power-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/states-told-to-set-up-district-electricity-committees-to-monitor-power-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"States told to set up district electricity committees to monitor power schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union power ministry has directed states to set up \u2018district electricity committees\u2019 to oversee the implementation of all power-related schemes of the central government.<\/p>\n<p>The committees will be headed by the most senior MP in the district, with the other district MPs as co-chairpersons. The district collector will be the member secretary of the committee, who, along with the district\u2019s chief or superintendent engineer of the discom, will be responsible for conducting meetings of the committees at least once in three months to review and coordinate overall development. The heads of the district panchayat and the MLAs will also be members of the committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union power ministry has directed states to set up \u2018district electricity committees\u2019 to oversee the implementation of all power-related schemes of the central government. The committees will be headed by the most senior MP in the district, with the other district MPs as co-chairpersons. The district collector will be the member secretary of the committee, who, along with the district\u2019s chief or superintendent engineer of the discom, will be responsible for conducting meetings of the committees at least once in three months to review and coordinate overall development. The heads of the district panchayat and the MLAs will also [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436778","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=436778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}