{"id":510693,"date":"2022-08-01T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510693"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:26:17","slug":"pm-modi-urges-states-to-clear-power-utilities-dues-of-rs-2-5-lakh-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-urges-states-to-clear-power-utilities-dues-of-rs-2-5-lakh-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi urges states to clear power utilities&#8217; dues of Rs 2.5 lakh cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the states to pay off debts owed to power companies of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore in order to support the energy industry, which is critical to boosting economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The energy and power sectors have a huge role to play in accelerating India&#8217;s progress in the next 25 years, he said, adding &#8220;the strength of the energy sector is also important for Ease of Doing Business and is equally important for Ease of Living.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the states to pay off debts owed to power companies of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore in order to support the energy industry, which is critical to boosting economic growth. The energy and power sectors have a huge role to play in accelerating India&#8217;s progress in the next 25 years, he said, adding &#8220;the strength of the energy sector is also important for Ease of Doing Business and is equally important for Ease of Living.&#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-510693","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\/510693","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=510693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}