{"id":475594,"date":"2022-03-15T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475594"},"modified":"2022-03-15T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:48:58","slug":"mp-govt-to-waive-off-power-bills-to-tune-of-rs-6400-cr-of-8-8-mn-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mp-govt-to-waive-off-power-bills-to-tune-of-rs-6400-cr-of-8-8-mn-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"MP govt to waive off power bills to tune of Rs 6,400 cr of 8.8 mn consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to people amid the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said his government would waive off electricity bills to the tune of Rs 6,400 crore of 88 lakh domestic consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the Assembly while replying to the motion of thanks on the governor&#8217;s address, Chouhan also said the interest of defaulter farmers will be paid by the government and the annual grant for MLAs will be raised to Rs 3 crore from the current Rs 2 crore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The electricity bills of 88 lakh domestic consumers amounting to Rs 6,400 crore will be waived off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to people amid the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said his government would waive off electricity bills to the tune of Rs 6,400 crore of 88 lakh domestic consumers. Speaking in the Assembly while replying to the motion of thanks on the governor&#8217;s address, Chouhan also said the interest of defaulter farmers will be paid by the government and the annual grant for MLAs will be raised to Rs 3 crore from the current Rs 2 crore. &#8220;The electricity bills of 88 lakh domestic consumers amounting [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475594","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=475594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}