{"id":439244,"date":"2021-09-30T10:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439244"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:59:28","slug":"punjab-govt-to-waive-%e2%82%b91200-cr-worth-power-bill-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-govt-to-waive-%e2%82%b91200-cr-worth-power-bill-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt to waive \u20b91,200 cr worth power bill arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant decision to provide succor to the economically weaker sections of society, Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday announced to waive the outstanding bills of domestic electricity consumers with up to 2kW load usage. <\/p>\n<p>Acceding to the long-pending demand of people whose electricity connections were snapped for non-payment of bills, the cabinet decided that the government will now pay arrears due towards individual defaulters. The government will have to bear a burden of \u20b91,200 crore to fulfil this announcement, said a government spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>This decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi at chief minister\u2019s office on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant decision to provide succor to the economically weaker sections of society, Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday announced to waive the outstanding bills of domestic electricity consumers with up to 2kW load usage. Acceding to the long-pending demand of people whose electricity connections were snapped for non-payment of bills, the cabinet decided that the government will now pay arrears due towards individual defaulters. The government will have to bear a burden of \u20b91,200 crore to fulfil this announcement, said a government spokesperson. This decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Charanjit [&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-439244","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\/439244","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=439244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}