{"id":479100,"date":"2022-03-26T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479100"},"modified":"2022-03-26T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:02:44","slug":"solar-rooftop-power-project-in-bathinda-applications-of-non-sc-beneficiaries-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-rooftop-power-project-in-bathinda-applications-of-non-sc-beneficiaries-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar rooftop power project in Bathinda: Applications of non-SC \u2018beneficiaries\u2019 rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATHINDA: The mega \u20b9100-crore solar rooftop power generation infrastructure project meant for the underprivileged sections of Bathinda city has been curtailed to half after the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) suspected \u201cfavoritism\u201d in the list of proposed beneficiates.<\/p>\n<p>Official privy to the matter said there was no clarity on how the beneficiaries were selected for the first-of-its-kind scheme launched in Punjab. The ambitious project was conceived by the former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and rolled out it in his Bathinda Urban constituency on December 11, 2021, three months before the state assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>It was seen as a major initiative to bring people closer to renewable energy resources that would further provide beneficiaries a relief by saving on the power bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATHINDA: The mega \u20b9100-crore solar rooftop power generation infrastructure project meant for the underprivileged sections of Bathinda city has been curtailed to half after the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) suspected \u201cfavoritism\u201d in the list of proposed beneficiates. Official privy to the matter said there was no clarity on how the beneficiaries were selected for the first-of-its-kind scheme launched in Punjab. The ambitious project was conceived by the former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and rolled out it in his Bathinda Urban constituency on December 11, 2021, three months before the state assembly elections. It was seen as a major [&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-479100","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\/479100","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=479100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}