{"id":455454,"date":"2021-12-10T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455454"},"modified":"2021-12-10T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:45:57","slug":"amid-politicking-govt-bites-rs-151-cr-bullet-extends-power-tariff-benefit-by-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-politicking-govt-bites-rs-151-cr-bullet-extends-power-tariff-benefit-by-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid politicking, govt bites Rs 151-cr bullet: extends power tariff benefit by a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power consumers in Punjab will get the benefit of the reduced tariff for an additional \u2013 from November 1 this year instead of December 1 \u2013 after the Cabinet Thursday approved a proposal, with the fresh decision coming in the run up to the Assembly polls.<\/p>\n<p>The relief of an additional month will put a financial burden of Rs 151 crore on the exchequer, the government said in a statement. The decision will benefit nearly 69 lakh consumers out of the total 71.75 lakh. Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in October had announced to reduce the power tariff by Rs 3 per unit but had decided to notify the rolling out of the benefit from December 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power consumers in Punjab will get the benefit of the reduced tariff for an additional \u2013 from November 1 this year instead of December 1 \u2013 after the Cabinet Thursday approved a proposal, with the fresh decision coming in the run up to the Assembly polls. The relief of an additional month will put a financial burden of Rs 151 crore on the exchequer, the government said in a statement. The decision will benefit nearly 69 lakh consumers out of the total 71.75 lakh. Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in October had announced to reduce the power tariff by Rs [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455454","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=455454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}