{"id":512688,"date":"2022-08-08T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=512688"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T05:26:49","slug":"refer-electricity-amendment-bill-to-parliamentary-panel-aipef-to-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/refer-electricity-amendment-bill-to-parliamentary-panel-aipef-to-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Refer Electricity (Amendment) bill to parliamentary panel: AIPEF to PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All India Power Engineers\u2019 Federation (AIPEF) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 \u2013 which aims to empower regulators and encourage competition in the sector, among others \u2013 should be referred to Parliament\u2019s standing committee on energy for detailed discussion with all the stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>AIPEF spokesperson V K Gupta said that as per legislative business of August 8, Union Power Minister R K Singh would move the bill to amend the Electricity Act, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower engineers and employees from all over the country will stop the work immediately and protest on August 8 if the bill is tabled in Parliament,\u201d Gupta said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All India Power Engineers\u2019 Federation (AIPEF) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022 \u2013 which aims to empower regulators and encourage competition in the sector, among others \u2013 should be referred to Parliament\u2019s standing committee on energy for detailed discussion with all the stakeholders. AIPEF spokesperson V K Gupta said that as per legislative business of August 8, Union Power Minister R K Singh would move the bill to amend the Electricity Act, 2003. \u201cPower engineers and employees from all over the country will stop the work immediately and protest on August 8 if 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512688","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=512688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}