{"id":554607,"date":"2023-02-10T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=554607"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T06:08:26","slug":"as-pspcl-bleeds-rs-54-cr-in-subsidies-daily-one-official-says-doesnt-want-power-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-pspcl-bleeds-rs-54-cr-in-subsidies-daily-one-official-says-doesnt-want-power-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"As PSPCL bleeds Rs 54 cr in subsidies daily, one official says doesn\u2019t want power for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Punjab\u2019s fund-starved power utility bleeding Rs 54 crore in subsidies every day and reportedly borrowing Rs 500 crore to pay slaray to its staff, one of its senior officials has now written to the government saying he wants to pay for the 300 units of free electricity that he is getting every month. <\/p>\n<p>Karamjeet Singh, Private Secretary to Chief Engineer (MM), Patiala Division, in a letter to power utility\u2019s chairperson ha written that he was getting zero bills against two meters installed in his and his wife\u2019s names. But he wants to pay the bill as he was concerned about the loan taken by the power utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Punjab\u2019s fund-starved power utility bleeding Rs 54 crore in subsidies every day and reportedly borrowing Rs 500 crore to pay slaray to its staff, one of its senior officials has now written to the government saying he wants to pay for the 300 units of free electricity that he is getting every month. Karamjeet Singh, Private Secretary to Chief Engineer (MM), Patiala Division, in a letter to power utility\u2019s chairperson ha written that he was getting zero bills against two meters installed in his and his wife\u2019s names. But he wants to pay the bill as he was concerned [&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-554607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554607","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=554607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}