{"id":553185,"date":"2023-02-06T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553185"},"modified":"2023-02-06T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T06:25:01","slug":"wont-privatise-power-supply-companies-will-bring-more-competition-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wont-privatise-power-supply-companies-will-bring-more-competition-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t privatise power supply companies, will bring more competition: Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government was working at amending laws to bring in more competition among electricity distribution companies (discoms) of various states in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Union Minister for Power, and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh said that the proposal was not to \u201cprivatise electricity supply companies. What you do is to bring in competition.\u201d He was responding to queries on proposals to privatise state-run discoms at a media briefing along the sidelines of a G-20 Energy Transitions Working Group Meeting, Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The present discoms, he said, would remain. \u201cBut they should be asked to compete so that you, as a consumer has a choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government was working at amending laws to bring in more competition among electricity distribution companies (discoms) of various states in the country. Union Minister for Power, and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh said that the proposal was not to \u201cprivatise electricity supply companies. What you do is to bring in competition.\u201d He was responding to queries on proposals to privatise state-run discoms at a media briefing along the sidelines of a G-20 Energy Transitions Working Group Meeting, Sunday. The present discoms, he said, would remain. \u201cBut they should be asked to compete so that you, as a [&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-553185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553185","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=553185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}