{"id":648902,"date":"2025-10-06T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648902"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:26:52","slug":"karnataka-solar-scheme-muft-bijli-confusion-triggers-95-backlog-vendor-delays-deposit-defaults-add-to-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-solar-scheme-muft-bijli-confusion-triggers-95-backlog-vendor-delays-deposit-defaults-add-to-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka solar scheme: \u2018Muft Bijli\u2019 confusion triggers 95% backlog; vendor delays, deposit defaults add to woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Besides being overshadowed by the state govt\u2019s Gruha Jyothi scheme, implementation of the Centre\u2019s PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana rooftop solar project has suffered in Karnataka due to widespread confusion around its title \u2014 \u2018Muft Bijli Yojana\u2019 (free power scheme). It has resulted in a massive backlog of applications across electricity supply company (Escom).<\/p>\n<p>Data as of Aug from the energy department reveals an average backlog of 95% across Escoms \u2014 meaning only five of every 100 applications under the scheme have been processed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Besides being overshadowed by the state govt\u2019s Gruha Jyothi scheme, implementation of the Centre\u2019s PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana rooftop solar project has suffered in Karnataka due to widespread confusion around its title \u2014 \u2018Muft Bijli Yojana\u2019 (free power scheme). It has resulted in a massive backlog of applications across electricity supply company (Escom). Data as of Aug from the energy department reveals an average backlog of 95% across Escoms \u2014 meaning only five of every 100 applications under the scheme have been processed.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648902","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=648902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}