{"id":489804,"date":"2022-05-06T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489804"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:05:34","slug":"no-free-power-for-all-from-october-in-delhi-cm-says-well-off-consumers-can-give-up-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-free-power-for-all-from-october-in-delhi-cm-says-well-off-consumers-can-give-up-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"No free power for all from October in Delhi; CM says well-off consumers can give up subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  In the peak of the summer season, Delhiites got a shock from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who announced on Thursday that the free power scheme won\u2019t be universal any longer and well-off consumers can opt-out of the subsidy regime from October 1.<\/p>\n<p>The consumers in Delhi at present get \u2018zero\u2019 power bills for up to 200 units of electricity and a subsidy of `800 on consuming 201 to 400 units per month. \u201cPeople have suggested that instead of providing subsidies to financially strong households, the money be used for schools and hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In the peak of the summer season, Delhiites got a shock from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who announced on Thursday that the free power scheme won\u2019t be universal any longer and well-off consumers can opt-out of the subsidy regime from October 1. The consumers in Delhi at present get \u2018zero\u2019 power bills for up to 200 units of electricity and a subsidy of `800 on consuming 201 to 400 units per month. \u201cPeople have suggested that instead of providing subsidies to financially strong households, the money be used for schools and hospitals.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489804","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=489804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}