{"id":303853,"date":"2018-10-07T06:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303853"},"modified":"2018-10-07T06:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T06:24:23","slug":"rajasthan-farmers-to-get-free-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-farmers-to-get-free-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: Farmers to get free electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300527 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/vasundhara-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/vasundhara-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/vasundhara-375x420.jpg 375w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/vasundhara.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday announced free electricity for farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 12 lakh farmers of the state will be benefitted under this scheme and will receive free electricity up to\u00a0Rs.\u00a010,000 for a year on their agricultural electricity connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister made the proclamation in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a public meeting in Ajmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement came hours before the Election Commission announced schedule for upcoming Assembly elections in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This benefit will be available in the form of grants through Direct Benefit transfer (DBT), officials of the Rajasthan Energy Department said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the scheme will be effective from November 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday announced free electricity for farmers. More than 12 lakh farmers of the state will be benefitted under this scheme and will receive free electricity up to\u00a0Rs.\u00a010,000 for a year on their agricultural electricity connection. The Chief Minister made the proclamation in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[3717,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303855,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303853\/revisions\/303855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}