{"id":439854,"date":"2021-10-04T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439854"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T06:10:25","slug":"electricity-bill-subsidy-a-distant-dream-for-tenants-caught-in-power-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-bill-subsidy-a-distant-dream-for-tenants-caught-in-power-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity bill subsidy a distant dream for tenants caught in power play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has been harsh for 40-year-old Amarjeet Chauhan, a footwear vendor who sells his merchandise on a pavement in northeast Delhi\u2019s Sonia Vihar, and his family of six. Chauhan had to pay monthly power bills ranging from \u20b9400 to \u20b91,200 between April and August for his two-room rented accommodation, which has two ceiling fans, two bulbs, a tube light, an old television set, and a small refrigerator. <\/p>\n<p>They cannot avail of government waivers such as not having to pay anything for up to 200 units a month, because they do not have a separate power connection, but a sub-meter instead.<\/p>\n<p>The entire building, which has five more families renting homes, has one power connection, with each household equipped with a sub-meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer has been harsh for 40-year-old Amarjeet Chauhan, a footwear vendor who sells his merchandise on a pavement in northeast Delhi\u2019s Sonia Vihar, and his family of six. Chauhan had to pay monthly power bills ranging from \u20b9400 to \u20b91,200 between April and August for his two-room rented accommodation, which has two ceiling fans, two bulbs, a tube light, an old television set, and a small refrigerator. They cannot avail of government waivers such as not having to pay anything for up to 200 units a month, because they do not have a separate power connection, but a sub-meter [&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-439854","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\/439854","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=439854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}