{"id":508155,"date":"2022-07-23T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508155"},"modified":"2022-07-23T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:07:32","slug":"reduce-fuel-surcharge-for-powerloom-industries-weavers-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/reduce-fuel-surcharge-for-powerloom-industries-weavers-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce fuel surcharge for powerloom industries: Weavers\u2019 body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of Gujarat Weavers Association (FOGWA) Friday submitted a representation to the state Minister for Agriculture, Energy and Petrochemical Mukesh Patel requesting to reduce the fuel surcharge levied from the powerloom factory owners from Rs 2.50 to Rs 2.00 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>In the memorandum, FOGWA president had mentioned that presently the industry is passing through a \u201crecession period\u201d. The major burden on the unit owners is of exorbitant power bills.<\/p>\n<p>Jirawala said, \u201cThe power consumption in the textile powerloom factories is very high as a result of which the production costs goes high. There are over 7.50 lakh powerloom machines in Surat city and they get electricity from Torrent Power company limited. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of Gujarat Weavers Association (FOGWA) Friday submitted a representation to the state Minister for Agriculture, Energy and Petrochemical Mukesh Patel requesting to reduce the fuel surcharge levied from the powerloom factory owners from Rs 2.50 to Rs 2.00 per unit. In the memorandum, FOGWA president had mentioned that presently the industry is passing through a \u201crecession period\u201d. The major burden on the unit owners is of exorbitant power bills. Jirawala said, \u201cThe power consumption in the textile powerloom factories is very high as a result of which the production costs goes high. There are over 7.50 lakh powerloom [&hellip;]<\/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-508155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508155","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=508155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}