{"id":660475,"date":"2026-05-13T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660475"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:15:34","slug":"up-govt-eases-smart-meter-rules-across-the-state-amid-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-govt-eases-smart-meter-rules-across-the-state-amid-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"UP govt eases smart meter rules across the state amid complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to undertake a series of relief measures for power consumers across the state to address growing consumer complaints over smart meter billing, recharges, and abrupt disconnections.<\/p>\n<p>In an order issued on May 8, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited\u2019s (UPPCL) managing director Nitin Kumar has directed all discoms to implement consumer-friendly measures for smart meter users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to undertake a series of relief measures for power consumers across the state to address growing consumer complaints over smart meter billing, recharges, and abrupt disconnections. In an order issued on May 8, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited\u2019s (UPPCL) managing director Nitin Kumar has directed all discoms to implement consumer-friendly measures for smart meter users.<\/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-660475","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\/660475","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=660475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660477,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660475\/revisions\/660477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}