{"id":496606,"date":"2022-06-06T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=496606"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:43:50","slug":"u-p-power-men-warn-of-stir-if-meters-installed-in-their-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/u-p-power-men-warn-of-stir-if-meters-installed-in-their-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"U.P. power men warn of stir if meters installed in their houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s power employees have warned of hitting the streets in protest if any bid is made to deprive them of the facility of using electricity at a concessional tariff by installing meters in their houses.<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes a day after energy minister AK Sharma on Saturday directed the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) to install meters in the power employees\u2019 residences as per the provisions. Reacting sharply to the minister\u2019s statement, UP Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti in a statement here said the minister was not aware of the factual position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower employees get the facility of using electricity at the discounted rate under the Electricity Reforms Act, 1999 and the Transfer Scheme, 2000,\u201d Samiti spokesman said adding, \u201cAny attempt to withdraw this facility will be violation of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s power employees have warned of hitting the streets in protest if any bid is made to deprive them of the facility of using electricity at a concessional tariff by installing meters in their houses. The warning comes a day after energy minister AK Sharma on Saturday directed the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) to install meters in the power employees\u2019 residences as per the provisions. Reacting sharply to the minister\u2019s statement, UP Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti in a statement here said the minister was not aware of the factual position. \u201cPower employees get the facility of using [&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-496606","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\/496606","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=496606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}