{"id":578159,"date":"2023-05-20T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=578159"},"modified":"2023-05-20T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:53:52","slug":"flat-rate-for-electricity-scheme-varanasi-weavers-fume-over-heftier-power-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flat-rate-for-electricity-scheme-varanasi-weavers-fume-over-heftier-power-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flat rate\u2019 for electricity scheme: Varanasi weavers fume over \u2018heftier\u2019 power bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powerloom weavers in Varanasi are opposing a relaunched \u2018flat rate\u2019 for electricity scheme in the state, alleging that they have to shell out five times more money under the new norms.<\/p>\n<p>After recently taking out a protest rally, a group of large number of weavers wrote to chief minister Yogi Adityanath and prime minister Narendra Modi demanding rollback of the revamped scheme. They demanded that they be charged \u20b92- \u20b92.50 per unit for connections of up to 75 kilowatt (kW) as per the previous scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Atal Bihari Vajpayee Powerloom Weaver Electricity Flat Rate Scheme, approved by the state cabinet on April 5 this year, is an amended model of a similar 2006 subsidy initiative for providing electricity to powerloom weavers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerloom weavers in Varanasi are opposing a relaunched \u2018flat rate\u2019 for electricity scheme in the state, alleging that they have to shell out five times more money under the new norms. After recently taking out a protest rally, a group of large number of weavers wrote to chief minister Yogi Adityanath and prime minister Narendra Modi demanding rollback of the revamped scheme. They demanded that they be charged \u20b92- \u20b92.50 per unit for connections of up to 75 kilowatt (kW) as per the previous scheme. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee Powerloom Weaver Electricity Flat Rate Scheme, approved by the state cabinet [&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-578159","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\/578159","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=578159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}