{"id":490390,"date":"2022-05-09T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490390"},"modified":"2022-05-09T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:06:18","slug":"power-tariff-hike-officials-say-hike-is-nominal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-hike-officials-say-hike-is-nominal\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff hike: Officials say hike is nominal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Many consumers\u2019 bills include customers&#8217; charges ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 150 besides the fixed and additional charges. The officials, however, said that the hike is nominal and the tariff is increased after a gap of six years in the state.\u201cThe other states have also increased the power tariff and are not able to provide uninterrupted electricity. However, despite the hike being nominal, we are able to supply quality power to all sectors,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the average service cost per unit is Rs 7.29-Rs 7.50, while the lowest tariff is Rs 1.95 per unit as the Discoms provide subsidies to consumers. \u201cWe did not transfer any burden onto the consumers. Compared to the price hike of all commodities in recent times, the increase in power tariff per unit is minimal,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Many consumers\u2019 bills include customers&#8217; charges ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 150 besides the fixed and additional charges. The officials, however, said that the hike is nominal and the tariff is increased after a gap of six years in the state.\u201cThe other states have also increased the power tariff and are not able to provide uninterrupted electricity. However, despite the hike being nominal, we are able to supply quality power to all sectors,\u201d said an official. According to them, the average service cost per unit is Rs 7.29-Rs 7.50, while the lowest tariff is Rs 1.95 per unit [&hellip;]<\/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-490390","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\/490390","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=490390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}