{"id":656469,"date":"2025-12-15T10:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656469"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:17:18","slug":"punjab-power-subsidy-bill-crosses-%e2%82%b910k-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-power-subsidy-bill-crosses-%e2%82%b910k-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab power subsidy bill crosses \u20b910k-crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab\u2019s power subsidy default has touched a new high, with unpaid bills now crossing the \u20b910,000-crore mark and pushing the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) into a serious financial crunch.<\/p>\n<p>For 2025-26, PSPCL has raised a subsidy bill of \u20b914,700 crore and the state government, to date, has released approximately \u20b98,700 crore, leaving \u20b96,000 crore unpaid. In addition to it, there are two legacy instalments that are also yet to be cleared. One being \u20b92,289 crore that was due by March 2025, and another \u20b91,804 crore for the current fiscal, taking the cumulative unpaid subsidy-related burden well past \u20b910,000 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab\u2019s power subsidy default has touched a new high, with unpaid bills now crossing the \u20b910,000-crore mark and pushing the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) into a serious financial crunch. For 2025-26, PSPCL has raised a subsidy bill of \u20b914,700 crore and the state government, to date, has released approximately \u20b98,700 crore, leaving \u20b96,000 crore unpaid. In addition to it, there are two legacy instalments that are also yet to be cleared. One being \u20b92,289 crore that was due by March 2025, and another \u20b91,804 crore for the current fiscal, taking the cumulative unpaid subsidy-related burden well past \u20b910,000 [&hellip;]<\/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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656469","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=656469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}