{"id":460953,"date":"2022-01-07T10:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=460953"},"modified":"2022-01-07T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T08:10:47","slug":"yogi-adityanath-slashes-power-rates-for-up-farmers-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/yogi-adityanath-slashes-power-rates-for-up-farmers-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Adityanath slashes power rates for UP farmers by half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid various political parties seeking to woo voters with promises of free power and other freebies ahead of the assembly polls, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced a 50 per cent cut on farmers&#8217; electricity bills for running their tubewells. The Chief Minister&#8217;s office made the announcement on its official Twitter handle that said the decision to slash the power bills has been taken in the interest of farmers.<\/p>\n<p>While the CM&#8217;s office tweet tagged a picture of a newspaper advertisement announcing the relief for farmers, it also mentioned a cut in power bills for urban areas by half.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if the relief in urban areas was meant only for farmers in urban villages or all urban residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid various political parties seeking to woo voters with promises of free power and other freebies ahead of the assembly polls, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced a 50 per cent cut on farmers&#8217; electricity bills for running their tubewells. The Chief Minister&#8217;s office made the announcement on its official Twitter handle that said the decision to slash the power bills has been taken in the interest of farmers. While the CM&#8217;s office tweet tagged a picture of a newspaper advertisement announcing the relief for farmers, it also mentioned a cut in power bills for urban areas by half. [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460953","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=460953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}