{"id":442040,"date":"2021-10-12T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T06:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442040"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:10:56","slug":"working-to-find-a-way-out-of-power-crisis-delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/working-to-find-a-way-out-of-power-crisis-delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Working to find a way out of power crisis: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that the power situation in the country was critical and Delhi government was making every effort alongside the central government to ensure that the capital did not face an electricity emergency. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral chief ministers have written to the central government about the critical power position across the country,\u201d Kejriwal told reporters, adding that all stakeholders were trying to remedy the situation. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Delhi power minister Satyendar Jain said that even though the peak power demand was much lower than in September, electricity was being bought at rates as high as Rs 17-20 per unit. Normally, discoms buy electricity at Rs 5.5-6 per unit as part of long-term arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that the power situation in the country was critical and Delhi government was making every effort alongside the central government to ensure that the capital did not face an electricity emergency. \u201cSeveral chief ministers have written to the central government about the critical power position across the country,\u201d Kejriwal told reporters, adding that all stakeholders were trying to remedy the situation. Earlier in the day, Delhi power minister Satyendar Jain said that even though the peak power demand was much lower than in September, electricity was being bought at rates as [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442040","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=442040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}