{"id":458540,"date":"2021-12-27T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458540"},"modified":"2021-12-27T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:22:17","slug":"next-punjab-govt-will-face-%e2%82%b910000-cr-power-subsidy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/next-punjab-govt-will-face-%e2%82%b910000-cr-power-subsidy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Punjab govt will face \u20b910,000 cr power subsidy bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patiala Freebies, being given away ahead of Punjab\u2019s assembly elections to the power sector, will saddle the next government with a bill of nearly \u20b910,000, data shows. For the remaining three months and a few days of this fiscal itself, the state government has to pay the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) \u20b913,000 crore, an uphill task for the cash-strapped regime.<\/p>\n<p>Since assuming power in 2017, the Congress government has also defaulted on paying subsidy dues in every fiscal. The previous SAD-BJP regime had left arrears of \u20b92,342 crore for it, this government has now allowed this burden to ballon to almost \u20b910,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>For PSPCL, this non-payment of dues in lieu of subsidies clubbed with the recent poll sops, has dried up its coffers; the utility is in acute financial stress. The corporation has not even received \u20b92,023 crore in lieu of writing off arrears of defaulting 2 KW consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patiala Freebies, being given away ahead of Punjab\u2019s assembly elections to the power sector, will saddle the next government with a bill of nearly \u20b910,000, data shows. For the remaining three months and a few days of this fiscal itself, the state government has to pay the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) \u20b913,000 crore, an uphill task for the cash-strapped regime. Since assuming power in 2017, the Congress government has also defaulted on paying subsidy dues in every fiscal. The previous SAD-BJP regime had left arrears of \u20b92,342 crore for it, this government has now allowed this burden to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-458540","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\/458540","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}