{"id":447220,"date":"2021-11-02T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447220"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:19:19","slug":"diwali-bonanza-punjab-cuts-power-tariff-by-%e2%82%b93-per-unit-for-domestic-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/diwali-bonanza-punjab-cuts-power-tariff-by-%e2%82%b93-per-unit-for-domestic-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwali bonanza: Punjab cuts power tariff by \u20b93 per unit for domestic consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab cabinet on Monday decided to cut power tariff by \u20b93 per unit for domestic consumers with immediate effect. <\/p>\n<p>The populist decision, which comes just months ahead of the assembly elections, will put a burden of \u20b93,316 crore per year on the exchequer. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi after the cabinet meeting. \u201cWe are reducing power tariff by \u20b93 per unit for domestic consumers,\u201d Channi told a press conference in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p>It is a \u201cbig Diwali gift\u201d for people, he said, adding that the decision will come into effect immediately. 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 cut power tariff by \u20b93 per unit for domestic consumers with immediate effect. The populist decision, which comes just months ahead of the assembly elections, will put a burden of \u20b93,316 crore per year on the exchequer. The announcement was made by Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi after the cabinet meeting. \u201cWe are reducing power tariff by \u20b93 per unit for domestic consumers,\u201d Channi told a press conference in Chandigarh. It is a \u201cbig Diwali gift\u201d for people, he said, adding that the decision will come into effect immediately. He said according [&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-447220","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\/447220","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=447220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}