{"id":646091,"date":"2025-09-13T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646091"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:18:04","slug":"free-farm-power-connections-last-year-fell-short-of-govt-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/free-farm-power-connections-last-year-fell-short-of-govt-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Free farm power connections last year fell short of govt target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has provided 15,000 free electricity connections for agricultural purposes during the 2024-25 financial year, states an RTI reply. This figure is well short of the government&#8217;s promise of 50,000 free connections. <\/p>\n<p>P Venkadachalamurthy, an executive committee member of the farmers&#8217; association, was provided with the reply by TNPGCL under the RTI Act. He alleged that the government&#8217;s announcement on providing free electricity connections to farmers was not fully executed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board has provided 15,000 free electricity connections for agricultural purposes during the 2024-25 financial year, states an RTI reply. This figure is well short of the government&#8217;s promise of 50,000 free connections. P Venkadachalamurthy, an executive committee member of the farmers&#8217; association, was provided with the reply by TNPGCL under the RTI Act. He alleged that the government&#8217;s announcement on providing free electricity connections to farmers was not fully executed.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646091","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=646091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}