{"id":1043141,"date":"2026-10-14T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043141"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:16:15","slug":"aadhaar-identification-mandatory-for-power-subsidy-scheme-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/aadhaar-identification-mandatory-for-power-subsidy-scheme-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar identification mandatory for power subsidy scheme benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has made Aadhaar identification mandatory for consumers to avail the benefits of its power subsidy scheme amid a steady rise in beneficiaries and a burgeoning power subsidy bill borne by the exchequer. <\/p>\n<p>According to official figures, by February 2026, the Delhi government\u2019s allocation for power subsidy reached Rs 4,037.63 crore. For the current financial year (2026-27), the government has budgeted Rs 3,500 crore for this purpose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has made Aadhaar identification mandatory for consumers to avail the benefits of its power subsidy scheme amid a steady rise in beneficiaries and a burgeoning power subsidy bill borne by the exchequer. According to official figures, by February 2026, the Delhi government\u2019s allocation for power subsidy reached Rs 4,037.63 crore. For the current financial year (2026-27), the government has budgeted Rs 3,500 crore for this purpose.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043141","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=1043141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043172,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043141\/revisions\/1043172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}