{"id":564897,"date":"2023-03-23T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=564897"},"modified":"2023-03-23T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:15:35","slug":"punjab-assembly-condemns-hp-govt-move-to-impose-water-cess-on-hydropower-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-assembly-condemns-hp-govt-move-to-impose-water-cess-on-hydropower-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Assembly condemns HP Govt move to impose water cess on hydropower projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday passed a \u2018unanimous\u2019 resolution, in the absence of the Congress legislators, declaring the Himachal Pradesh Government\u2019s move to levy water cess on hydel power projects as \u201cillegal\u201d while seeking its \u201cimmediate withdrawal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution recommended to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led State Government to request the Centre to prevail upon the Congress-ruled hill state to withdraw the proposed move maintaining that it was \u201cin violation of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While the members of the principal opposition, Congress stayed away, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and BSP members backed the resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday passed a \u2018unanimous\u2019 resolution, in the absence of the Congress legislators, declaring the Himachal Pradesh Government\u2019s move to levy water cess on hydel power projects as \u201cillegal\u201d while seeking its \u201cimmediate withdrawal\u201d. The resolution recommended to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led State Government to request the Centre to prevail upon the Congress-ruled hill state to withdraw the proposed move maintaining that it was \u201cin violation of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956\u201d. While the members of the principal opposition, Congress stayed away, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and BSP [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564897","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=564897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}