{"id":438360,"date":"2021-09-27T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438360"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:36:55","slug":"7-months-on-%e2%82%b9100-crore-solar-power-project-for-ews-households-in-bathinda-fails-to-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/7-months-on-%e2%82%b9100-crore-solar-power-project-for-ews-households-in-bathinda-fails-to-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"7 months on, \u20b9100-crore solar power project for EWS households in Bathinda fails to take off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months after finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal announced to equip economically weaker section (EWS) households in Bathinda city with solar power generation infrastructure for free, the \u20b9100-crore ambitious project has failed to make any progress. <\/p>\n<p>According to the proposal, the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA), state\u2019s nodal agency for promotion and development of renewable energy programmes, will execute the project on a pilot basis for 13,000 households.<\/p>\n<p>In the run up to local body elections in February this year, Manpreet had first stated that the initiative will relieve the underprivileged families of his assembly segment from paying electricity bills. It was seen as a major initiative to bring people closer to renewable energy resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months after finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal announced to equip economically weaker section (EWS) households in Bathinda city with solar power generation infrastructure for free, the \u20b9100-crore ambitious project has failed to make any progress. According to the proposal, the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA), state\u2019s nodal agency for promotion and development of renewable energy programmes, will execute the project on a pilot basis for 13,000 households. In the run up to local body elections in February this year, Manpreet had first stated that the initiative will relieve the underprivileged families of his assembly segment from paying electricity bills. [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438360","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=438360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}