{"id":487073,"date":"2022-04-27T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487073"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:13:14","slug":"tamil-nadu-govt-to-provide-50000-free-power-connections-to-farmers-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-govt-to-provide-50000-free-power-connections-to-farmers-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu govt to provide 50,000 free power connections to farmers: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu government will provide 50,000 free agriculture service connections to farmers during 2022-\u201923 fiscal, Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji informed the Assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes close on the heels of the DMK government\u2019s success in providing, for the first time, one lakh agriculture service connections in less than a year during 2021-22 fiscal. <\/p>\n<p>Winding up the debate on the demand for grants for his department, the Minister said, \u201cthe move will not only help to enhance productivity but also expand the acreage under cultivation leading to farmers\u2019 welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu government will provide 50,000 free agriculture service connections to farmers during 2022-\u201923 fiscal, Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji informed the Assembly on Tuesday. The announcement comes close on the heels of the DMK government\u2019s success in providing, for the first time, one lakh agriculture service connections in less than a year during 2021-22 fiscal. Winding up the debate on the demand for grants for his department, the Minister said, \u201cthe move will not only help to enhance productivity but also expand the acreage under cultivation leading to farmers\u2019 welfare.\u201d<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487073","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=487073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}