{"id":582276,"date":"2023-06-06T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=582276"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:20:44","slug":"as-ashok-gehlot-ups-the-ante-heres-how-states-compare-on-power-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-ashok-gehlot-ups-the-ante-heres-how-states-compare-on-power-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"As Ashok Gehlot ups the ante, here&#8217;s how states compare on power subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced a top-up to his electricity subsidy for Rajasthan, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised the move, claiming it was a pre-election stunt and that the government had not yet paid distribution companies (discoms) a large outstanding amount against the subsidy that had already been given to consumers. <\/p>\n<p>Following the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi, subsidies on power consumption are now offered by various state governments in terms of units (in kWh, ie kilo-watt-hour) consumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced a top-up to his electricity subsidy for Rajasthan, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised the move, claiming it was a pre-election stunt and that the government had not yet paid distribution companies (discoms) a large outstanding amount against the subsidy that had already been given to consumers. Following the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi, subsidies on power consumption are now offered by various state governments in terms of units (in kWh, ie kilo-watt-hour) consumed.<\/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-582276","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\/582276","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=582276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}