{"id":576546,"date":"2023-05-15T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=576546"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:31:00","slug":"no-regulation-without-discussion-power-ministry-to-cerc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-regulation-without-discussion-power-ministry-to-cerc\/","title":{"rendered":"No regulation without discussion: Power ministry to CERC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The power ministry has invoked special powers to issue \u201cpolicy direction\u201d to the tariff regulator CERC (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission) \u2014 an independent body set up under the Electricity Act \u2014 to consult it in \u201cdetail\u201d while making regulations on the ground that the ministry is \u201cresponsible to Parliament and is the most important stakeholder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The May 8 directive is the latest in a series of instances where the ministry has invoked Section 107 of the Electricity Act to issue directives. The ministry has issued over adozen such directives under this section since 2018, with as many as five issued in the first five months of 2022 and a few sent this year too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The power ministry has invoked special powers to issue \u201cpolicy direction\u201d to the tariff regulator CERC (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission) \u2014 an independent body set up under the Electricity Act \u2014 to consult it in \u201cdetail\u201d while making regulations on the ground that the ministry is \u201cresponsible to Parliament and is the most important stakeholder\u201d. The May 8 directive is the latest in a series of instances where the ministry has invoked Section 107 of the Electricity Act to issue directives. The ministry has issued over adozen such directives under this section since 2018, with as many as [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576546","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=576546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}