{"id":1031425,"date":"2026-08-27T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031425"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:42:11","slug":"send-sms-alert-on-free-power-benefit-to-avoid-confusion-consumers-and-eb-staff-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/send-sms-alert-on-free-power-benefit-to-avoid-confusion-consumers-and-eb-staff-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Send SMS alert on free power benefit to avoid confusion&#8217; &#8211; Consumers and EB Staff demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: Beneficiaries of the state government&#8217;s scheme offering 200 units of free electricity bi-monthly for domestic consumers whose total consumption does not exceed 500 units in that period have demanded that the benefit be communicated to each consumer via SMS, similarly to the non-beneficiaries. Without knowing whether they have to pay the bill or not, many consumers are frequently visiting Electricity Board offices, especially in rural areas, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COIMBATORE: Beneficiaries of the state government&#8217;s scheme offering 200 units of free electricity bi-monthly for domestic consumers whose total consumption does not exceed 500 units in that period have demanded that the benefit be communicated to each consumer via SMS, similarly to the non-beneficiaries. Without knowing whether they have to pay the bill or not, many consumers are frequently visiting Electricity Board offices, especially in rural areas, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031446,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031425\/revisions\/1031446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}