{"id":543310,"date":"2022-12-15T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T04:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=543310"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:06:04","slug":"delhi-households-receive-subsidised-electricity-bills-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-households-receive-subsidised-electricity-bills-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi households receive subsidised electricity bills in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 39 lakh households across the national capital have received subsidised electricity bills in November, said government data. <\/p>\n<p>The AAP government from October made it mandatory for consumers to apply for subsidised power bills after it phased out its signature \u201cfree electricity\u201d scheme launched in 2019 amid the ongoing debate over \u2018freebie\u2019 politics. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on September 14 launched a WhatsApp number under its new Voluntary Subsidy Scheme and announced that the people will have to apply and give consent for getting electricity at subsidised rate. <\/p>\n<p>According to the government data, about 40.3 lakh people have applied for the subsidy till December 13, while 55 lakh people availed of the facility in November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 39 lakh households across the national capital have received subsidised electricity bills in November, said government data. The AAP government from October made it mandatory for consumers to apply for subsidised power bills after it phased out its signature \u201cfree electricity\u201d scheme launched in 2019 amid the ongoing debate over \u2018freebie\u2019 politics. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on September 14 launched a WhatsApp number under its new Voluntary Subsidy Scheme and announced that the people will have to apply and give consent for getting electricity at subsidised rate. According to the government data, about 40.3 lakh people have applied for [&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-543310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543310","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=543310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}