{"id":473666,"date":"2022-03-07T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T05:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473666"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T05:13:28","slug":"states-have-to-set-house-in-order-to-meet-rising-power-demand-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/states-have-to-set-house-in-order-to-meet-rising-power-demand-official\/","title":{"rendered":"States have to set house in order to meet rising power demand: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity (amendment) Bill, 2021, through which the government intends to bring sweeping reforms in the country\u2019s power sector, is still at a \u201cdecision stage\u201d, Union power secretary Alok Kumar has told HT, adding that states have to set their house in order to meet India\u2019s growing power demand.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the government is going to include additional minimum area clauses and cross subsidies in the draft Bill to avoid \u201ccherry picking\u201d by private distribution companies (Discoms) and generation companies (Gencos).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power minister has also told the Parliament also that there is a need for reforms. States have been consulted and it is still at a decision stage. The government has to decide on the exact provisions of the law,\u201d Kumar told HT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity (amendment) Bill, 2021, through which the government intends to bring sweeping reforms in the country\u2019s power sector, is still at a \u201cdecision stage\u201d, Union power secretary Alok Kumar has told HT, adding that states have to set their house in order to meet India\u2019s growing power demand. He also said the government is going to include additional minimum area clauses and cross subsidies in the draft Bill to avoid \u201ccherry picking\u201d by private distribution companies (Discoms) and generation companies (Gencos). \u201cThe power minister has also told the Parliament also that there is a need for reforms. States have [&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-473666","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\/473666","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=473666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}