{"id":446971,"date":"2021-11-02T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446971"},"modified":"2021-11-02T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:18:51","slug":"power-tariff-slashed-by-rs-3-per-unit-in-punjab-ahead-of-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-slashed-by-rs-3-per-unit-in-punjab-ahead-of-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff slashed by Rs 3 per unit in Punjab ahead of polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab Cabinet on Monday decided to slash power tariff by Rs 3 per unit for domestic consumers, a move which comes just months ahead of the Assembly polls and will put a burden of Rs 3,316 crore per year on the exchequer.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi after the Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reducing power tariff by Rs 3 per unit for domestic consumers,&#8221; said Channi addressing the media here.<\/p>\n<p>It is a &#8220;big Diwali gift&#8221; for people, he said, adding that the decision will come into effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>He said according to a survey conducted by his government, people wanted quality and cheap power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab Cabinet on Monday decided to slash power tariff by Rs 3 per unit for domestic consumers, a move which comes just months ahead of the Assembly polls and will put a burden of Rs 3,316 crore per year on the exchequer. The announcement was made by Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi after the Cabinet meeting. &#8220;We are reducing power tariff by Rs 3 per unit for domestic consumers,&#8221; said Channi addressing the media here. It is a &#8220;big Diwali gift&#8221; for people, he said, adding that the decision will come into effect immediately. He said according to [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446971","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=446971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}