{"id":439304,"date":"2021-09-30T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439304"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T06:29:07","slug":"punjab-channi-waives-pending-power-bills-of-53-lakh-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-channi-waives-pending-power-bills-of-53-lakh-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab: Channi waives pending power bills of 53 lakh households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi Wednesday announced his Cabinet\u2019s decision to waive the pending power dues of 53 lakh households in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing media after chairing a Cabinet meeting, Channi said that power connections of about 55,000 to 1 lakh households have been disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discussed this in the Cabinet and decided to roll out the waiver from today itself. Only the pending bills will be waived off. The consumers will have to pay their bills from this month onwards.\u201d Channi said. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the waiver would mean a burden of Rs 1200 crore on the state exchequer. \u201cIt could even be more. These are the estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi Wednesday announced his Cabinet\u2019s decision to waive the pending power dues of 53 lakh households in the state. Addressing media after chairing a Cabinet meeting, Channi said that power connections of about 55,000 to 1 lakh households have been disconnected. \u201cWe discussed this in the Cabinet and decided to roll out the waiver from today itself. Only the pending bills will be waived off. The consumers will have to pay their bills from this month onwards.\u201d Channi said. He added that the waiver would mean a burden of Rs 1200 crore on the state [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439304","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=439304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}