{"id":588525,"date":"2023-07-03T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T04:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=588525"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T05:27:07","slug":"privatisation-of-escoms-not-a-panacea-to-all-problems-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/privatisation-of-escoms-not-a-panacea-to-all-problems-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatisation of escoms not a panacea to all problems: George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Energy Minister K J George has been busy resolving concerns around the power tariff hike and implementation of the \u2018Gruha Jyothi\u2019 scheme since he took charge. As confusion fades out and the scheme\u2019s implementation begins, he spoke to Sneha Ramesh of DH about the government\u2019s long-term plans for the energy sector and how privatisation may not be a good option. Edited excerpts from the interview: <\/p>\n<p>There was much confusion about the \u2018Gruha Jyothi\u2019 scheme. Have all concerns been addressed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Energy Minister K J George has been busy resolving concerns around the power tariff hike and implementation of the \u2018Gruha Jyothi\u2019 scheme since he took charge. As confusion fades out and the scheme\u2019s implementation begins, he spoke to Sneha Ramesh of DH about the government\u2019s long-term plans for the energy sector and how privatisation may not be a good option. Edited excerpts from the interview: There was much confusion about the \u2018Gruha Jyothi\u2019 scheme. Have all concerns been addressed?<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588525","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=588525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}