{"id":521664,"date":"2022-09-13T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=521664"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T07:18:35","slug":"power-deptt-formalises-amnesty-for-domestic-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-deptt-formalises-amnesty-for-domestic-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Deptt formalises amnesty for domestic consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: After receiving the Administrative Council\u2019s (AC) consent, the Power Department formally issued an order declaring a waiver of the interest that had accrued on domestic electricity bills due to non-payments for J&amp;K residents.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5.50 lakh domestic consumers would benefit from the decision by having an amount of Rs 937.34 crore that had accumulated as a surcharge or interest due to late payments waived. <\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s decision has been praised widely since for the past two years COVID caused J&amp;K&#8217;s economy to suffer leading to electricity customers not paying bills on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: After receiving the Administrative Council\u2019s (AC) consent, the Power Department formally issued an order declaring a waiver of the interest that had accrued on domestic electricity bills due to non-payments for J&amp;K residents. More than 5.50 lakh domestic consumers would benefit from the decision by having an amount of Rs 937.34 crore that had accumulated as a surcharge or interest due to late payments waived. The government\u2019s decision has been praised widely since for the past two years COVID caused J&amp;K&#8217;s economy to suffer leading to electricity customers not paying bills on time.<\/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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-power-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521664","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=521664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}