{"id":566892,"date":"2023-03-31T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=566892"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T04:09:29","slug":"privatisation-of-power-sector-in-pondy-will-not-affect-consumers-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/privatisation-of-power-sector-in-pondy-will-not-affect-consumers-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatisation of power sector in Pondy will not affect consumers: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puducherry Home and Electricity Minister A Namassivayam on Wednesday allayed the fears of the elected members and also members of public that the government&#8217;s decision to privatise power sector would hit employees and consumers in the Union Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to the views expressed by the members during the debate on demands for grants to his departments including Electricity in territorial Assembly, the Minister denied rumours that the privatisation of power sector would affect the employees, consumers and the farmers here.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that there was &#8220;unfounded rumour&#8221; that the assets of the Department of Electricity were worth Rs 20,000 crore and that they would all be transferred to the private players once privatisation materalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puducherry Home and Electricity Minister A Namassivayam on Wednesday allayed the fears of the elected members and also members of public that the government&#8217;s decision to privatise power sector would hit employees and consumers in the Union Territory. Replying to the views expressed by the members during the debate on demands for grants to his departments including Electricity in territorial Assembly, the Minister denied rumours that the privatisation of power sector would affect the employees, consumers and the farmers here. He also said that there was &#8220;unfounded rumour&#8221; that the assets of the Department of Electricity were worth Rs 20,000 [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566892","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=566892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}