{"id":455138,"date":"2021-12-09T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455138"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:50:11","slug":"tamil-nadu-cm-voices-concern-against-electricity-amendment-bill-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-cm-voices-concern-against-electricity-amendment-bill-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu CM voices concern against Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday voiced concern against the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act, 2003 and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s intervention to withdraw an amendment bill in this connection.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister M K Stalin said the proposed amendments will have \u201cfar-reaching\u201d implications for state DISCOMs and argued certain provisions will allow \u201cunbridled access\u201d to the private players in select areas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learn that this amendment Bill proposes to delicense the distribution sector of electricity, by introducing a concept of Distribution Company and deemed registration of any such distribution company after 60 days of application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday voiced concern against the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act, 2003 and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s intervention to withdraw an amendment bill in this connection. Chief Minister M K Stalin said the proposed amendments will have \u201cfar-reaching\u201d implications for state DISCOMs and argued certain provisions will allow \u201cunbridled access\u201d to the private players in select areas. \u201cI learn that this amendment Bill proposes to delicense the distribution sector of electricity, by introducing a concept of Distribution Company and deemed registration of any such distribution company after 60 days of application.<\/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-455138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455138","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=455138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}