{"id":577046,"date":"2023-05-16T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=577046"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T07:34:13","slug":"power-tariff-hike-will-hit-those-paying-bills-this-is-unhealthy-for-growth-of-any-state-industry-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-hike-will-hit-those-paying-bills-this-is-unhealthy-for-growth-of-any-state-industry-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Power tariff hike will hit those paying bills\u2026 this is unhealthy for growth of any state\u2019: Industry reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hiked power tariff is going to hit the billed consumers \u2014 domestic, commercial as well as industrial \u2014 while the customers with zero bills will remain untouched. The hike has not gone down well with the industry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHiking the power tariff and even the fixed charges (as per the declared load) was well-planned. Government was waiting for results of Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll. Hence, they implemented it soon after the results were declared but the customers who are already paying bills will be bearing the brunt of hiked tariff and not the ones who get zero bills. This disparity is unhealthy for the growth of any state,\u201d said Badish Jindal, president of All India Trade Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hiked power tariff is going to hit the billed consumers \u2014 domestic, commercial as well as industrial \u2014 while the customers with zero bills will remain untouched. The hike has not gone down well with the industry. \u201cHiking the power tariff and even the fixed charges (as per the declared load) was well-planned. Government was waiting for results of Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll. Hence, they implemented it soon after the results were declared but the customers who are already paying bills will be bearing the brunt of hiked tariff and not the ones who get zero bills. This disparity [&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-577046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577046","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=577046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}