{"id":650724,"date":"2025-10-31T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650724"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:03:35","slug":"govt-allays-concern-over-power-cost-rise-state-autonomy-loss-under-new-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-allays-concern-over-power-cost-rise-state-autonomy-loss-under-new-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt allays concern over power cost rise, state autonomy loss under new bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a bid to allay concerns over a potential increase in tariffs for farmers and impact on operations of state-run power distribution companies (discoms) due to the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025, the power ministry on Thursday said the changes would only bring in &#8220;fair competition&#8221; and reduce the cost of power supply.<\/p>\n<p>It said the new bill will not erode the autonomy of states, and would in fact preserve federal balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a bid to allay concerns over a potential increase in tariffs for farmers and impact on operations of state-run power distribution companies (discoms) due to the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025, the power ministry on Thursday said the changes would only bring in &#8220;fair competition&#8221; and reduce the cost of power supply. It said the new bill will not erode the autonomy of states, and would in fact preserve federal balance.<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650724","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=650724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}