{"id":510833,"date":"2022-08-01T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510833"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T07:21:34","slug":"pm-urges-states-uts-to-clear-pending-power-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-urges-states-uts-to-clear-pending-power-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"PM urges States, UTs to clear pending power dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stressing that health of power sector was not a matter  of &#8220;politics&#8221;, Prime Minister  Narendra  Modi on Saturday urged States and Union Territories to clear pending power dues &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister asserted that in politics people should have &#8220;courage to tell the truth&#8221;  and  sought states to  avoid  &#8220;postponing&#8221; it  which he said has led  the power sector in many states into &#8220;huge problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Modi was addressing the gathering at the Grand Finale marking the culmination of \u2018Ujjwal Bharat Ujjwal Bhavishya \u2013 Power @2047\u2019  via video conferencing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This strategy may sound like good politics in the short term. But it is like postponing today\u2019s truth, today\u2019s challenges, for tomorrow, for our children, and for our future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stressing that health of power sector was not a matter of &#8220;politics&#8221;, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged States and Union Territories to clear pending power dues &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221; The Prime Minister asserted that in politics people should have &#8220;courage to tell the truth&#8221; and sought states to avoid &#8220;postponing&#8221; it which he said has led the power sector in many states into &#8220;huge problems.&#8221; Modi was addressing the gathering at the Grand Finale marking the culmination of \u2018Ujjwal Bharat Ujjwal Bhavishya \u2013 Power @2047\u2019 via video conferencing. &#8220;This strategy may sound like good politics in the [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510833","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=510833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}