{"id":656917,"date":"2025-12-22T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656917"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:02:15","slug":"electricity-bill-amendments-will-not-increase-tariffs-or-affect-subsidies-khattar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-bill-amendments-will-not-increase-tariffs-or-affect-subsidies-khattar\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity bill amendments will not increase tariffs or affect subsidies: Khattar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELH: Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that proposed amendments to the Electricity Act will not lead to a tariff hike, and eligible beneficiaries will continue to receive subsidies from their respective state govts.<\/p>\n<p>Chairing a meeting of the parliamentary consultative committee earlier this week, the minister stated that the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, only mandates \u201ccost-reflective\u201d tariffs and empowers regulatory commissions to act suo motu when utilities delay tariff filings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELH: Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that proposed amendments to the Electricity Act will not lead to a tariff hike, and eligible beneficiaries will continue to receive subsidies from their respective state govts. Chairing a meeting of the parliamentary consultative committee earlier this week, the minister stated that the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, only mandates \u201ccost-reflective\u201d tariffs and empowers regulatory commissions to act suo motu when utilities delay tariff filings.<\/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-656917","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\/656917","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=656917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}