{"id":540977,"date":"2022-12-05T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=540977"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:24:49","slug":"ahead-of-polls-karnataka-govt-plans-to-cut-power-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ahead-of-polls-karnataka-govt-plans-to-cut-power-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of polls, Karnataka govt plans to cut power tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity bills are likely to reduce as the Karnataka government is planning a downward revision of power tariffs, a move that has the upcoming Assembly polls written all over it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want tariffs to reduce across all categories of consumers &#8212; domestic, commercial and industrial &#8212; and directions have been issued on these lines,&#8221; Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar told DH, adding that the modalities are being worked out. <\/p>\n<p>The government has asked electricity supply companies (Escoms) to make sure consumers are &#8220;not burdened&#8221; during the tariff revision that is soon due. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the government has asked Escoms to reduce energy charges for every unit of power. This could result in tariffs reducing in the range of 70 paise to Rs 2 per unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity bills are likely to reduce as the Karnataka government is planning a downward revision of power tariffs, a move that has the upcoming Assembly polls written all over it. &#8220;We want tariffs to reduce across all categories of consumers &#8212; domestic, commercial and industrial &#8212; and directions have been issued on these lines,&#8221; Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar told DH, adding that the modalities are being worked out. The government has asked electricity supply companies (Escoms) to make sure consumers are &#8220;not burdened&#8221; during the tariff revision that is soon due. According to sources, the government has asked Escoms [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540977","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=540977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}