{"id":658897,"date":"2026-02-26T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658897"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:15:44","slug":"meters-in-minus-in-prayagraj-over-100-prepaid-power-consumers-owe-over-%e2%82%b91-lakh-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/meters-in-minus-in-prayagraj-over-100-prepaid-power-consumers-owe-over-%e2%82%b91-lakh-each\/","title":{"rendered":"Meters in minus in Prayagraj: Over 100 prepaid power consumers owe over \u20b91 lakh each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 consumers in Prayagraj have accumulated electricity dues exceeding \u20b91 lakh each, despite being shifted to prepaid metering, highlighting concerns over the prepaid electricity system.<\/p>\n<p>According to departmental data, 2,587 consumers\u2019 meters have gone into negative balance of up to \u20b95,000. Meanwhile, 3,470 consumers have outstanding dues ranging between \u20b95,000 and \u20b950,000. In addition, 158 consumers have dues between \u20b950,000 and \u20b91 lakh, while 122 consumers\u2019 meters have gone into negative balance exceeding \u20b91 lakh. Around 25,000 consumers have outstanding dues of more than \u20b95,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 consumers in Prayagraj have accumulated electricity dues exceeding \u20b91 lakh each, despite being shifted to prepaid metering, highlighting concerns over the prepaid electricity system. According to departmental data, 2,587 consumers\u2019 meters have gone into negative balance of up to \u20b95,000. Meanwhile, 3,470 consumers have outstanding dues ranging between \u20b95,000 and \u20b950,000. In addition, 158 consumers have dues between \u20b950,000 and \u20b91 lakh, while 122 consumers\u2019 meters have gone into negative balance exceeding \u20b91 lakh. Around 25,000 consumers have outstanding dues of more than \u20b95,000.<\/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-658897","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\/658897","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=658897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}