{"id":522045,"date":"2022-09-15T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522045"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:28:29","slug":"power-tariff-is-cheaper-in-tn-than-in-other-states-even-after-revision-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-is-cheaper-in-tn-than-in-other-states-even-after-revision-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff is cheaper in TN than in other states even after revision: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Electricity minister V Senthilbalaji on Wednesday justified the latest hike in power tariffs claiming that the charges are still cheaper in Tamil Nadu compared to other states.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the tariffs for the MSME sector had been increased marginally at 23% compared to the 61% hike for the sector during the previous AIADMK rule.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the queries after attending a review meeting with Tangedco officials of Chennai North circle, the minister said the proposed fixed charges for the MSME sector was reduced as per the directions of chief minister M K Stalin even if the expected revenue of Rs 3,211 crore from the sector could not be realised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Electricity minister V Senthilbalaji on Wednesday justified the latest hike in power tariffs claiming that the charges are still cheaper in Tamil Nadu compared to other states. He said that the tariffs for the MSME sector had been increased marginally at 23% compared to the 61% hike for the sector during the previous AIADMK rule. Responding to the queries after attending a review meeting with Tangedco officials of Chennai North circle, the minister said the proposed fixed charges for the MSME sector was reduced as per the directions of chief minister M K Stalin even if the expected revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522045","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}