{"id":439243,"date":"2021-09-30T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439243"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:59:00","slug":"pspcl-waives-off-arrears-worth-%e2%82%b9350-crore-in-ludhiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pspcl-waives-off-arrears-worth-%e2%82%b9350-crore-in-ludhiana\/","title":{"rendered":"PSPCL waives off arrears worth \u20b9350 crore in Ludhiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief for electricity consumers in the district, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited on Wednesday waived off arrears worth \u20b9350 crore at the behest of Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi. <\/p>\n<p>The CM said that the state government will pay the outstanding amount (around \u20b91,200 crore) to the Punjab electricity board. The government will pay arrears till September but consumers will have to pay arrears, if any, from October.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a few PSPCL officials have expresses their reservations regarding the move, which comes close to the assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>A senior PSPCL official said, \u201cWe already had written directions to not disconnect the electricity meters of economically weaker section, even if they are unable to pay their arrears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief for electricity consumers in the district, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited on Wednesday waived off arrears worth \u20b9350 crore at the behest of Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi. The CM said that the state government will pay the outstanding amount (around \u20b91,200 crore) to the Punjab electricity board. The government will pay arrears till September but consumers will have to pay arrears, if any, from October. Meanwhile, a few PSPCL officials have expresses their reservations regarding the move, which comes close to the assembly elections. A senior PSPCL official said, \u201cWe already had written [&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-439243","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\/439243","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=439243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}