{"id":556125,"date":"2023-02-16T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556125"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:23:00","slug":"up-asked-to-review-decision-not-to-import-coal-expedite-smart-metering-project-union-power-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-asked-to-review-decision-not-to-import-coal-expedite-smart-metering-project-union-power-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"UP asked to review decision not to import coal, expedite smart metering project: Union power secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union power secretary Alok Kumar was in the city last week to participate in the sectoral session on \u2018Sustainable Development Through Renewable Energy\u2019 at Uttar Pradesh Global Investors\u2019 Summit (UPGIS). Having led the state\u2019s energy sector for a significant amount of time, he put forward a number of suggestions to improve the efficiency of the state\u2019s power distribution companies (discoms). In an exclusive conversation with Brajendra K Parashar, Kumar spoke at length on different issues, including the controversial smart metering project and the state\u2019s reluctance to import coal. Excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>In your address at the sectoral session of UPGIS, you advised discoms to speedily roll out the ambitious smart prepaid metering. Please elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union power secretary Alok Kumar was in the city last week to participate in the sectoral session on \u2018Sustainable Development Through Renewable Energy\u2019 at Uttar Pradesh Global Investors\u2019 Summit (UPGIS). Having led the state\u2019s energy sector for a significant amount of time, he put forward a number of suggestions to improve the efficiency of the state\u2019s power distribution companies (discoms). In an exclusive conversation with Brajendra K Parashar, Kumar spoke at length on different issues, including the controversial smart metering project and the state\u2019s reluctance to import coal. Excerpts: In your address at the sectoral session of UPGIS, you advised [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556125","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=556125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}