{"id":487169,"date":"2022-04-27T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487169"},"modified":"2022-04-27T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:36:56","slug":"tamil-nadu-govt-to-provide-50000-free-power-connections-to-farmers-minister-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-govt-to-provide-50000-free-power-connections-to-farmers-minister-2\/","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-&#8217;23 fiscal, Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji informed the Assembly on Tuesday. The announcement comes close on the heels of the DMK government&#8217;s 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, &#8220;the move will not only help to enhance productivity but also expand the acreage under cultivation leading to farmers&#8217; welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu government will provide 50,000 free agriculture service connections to farmers during 2022-&#8217;23 fiscal, Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji informed the Assembly on Tuesday. The announcement comes close on the heels of the DMK government&#8217;s 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, &#8220;the move will not only help to enhance productivity but also expand the acreage under cultivation leading to farmers&#8217; welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-487169","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\/487169","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}