{"id":121036,"date":"2017-07-13T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=121036"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:59:09","slug":"gjm-shutdown-nhpc-shuts-teesta-hydel-power-plant-as-precautionary-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gjm-shutdown-nhpc-shuts-teesta-hydel-power-plant-as-precautionary-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"GJM shutdown: NHPC shuts Teesta hydel power plant as precautionary measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Hydel Power Corporation has shut down its hydel power plant at Ramdi in Darjeeling hills after a mob of over 600 people began agitation outside the plant site, a NHPC official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had shut down operation of Teesta Low Dam III plan of 132 MW as a precaution after a mob over than 600 people gheraoed the site and began agitation,&#8221; the NHPC official told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the regional head of NHPC is slated to meet the West Bengal Power secretary here today to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had already written to state power secretary, chief secretary, district magistrate to beef up security at the NHPC installations in Darjeeling district,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>NHPC will resume power generation at Ramdi plant once it gets assurance of security of the unit, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>NHPC has another unit Teesta Low dam IV of 160MW in Darjeeling hills.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Gorkhaland supporters had yesterday set ablaze a panchayat office and damaged a few government vehicles in Darjeeling hills on the 28th day of the indefinite shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The agitation spearhead Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) took out a rally at Chowkbazar in Darjeeling town yesterday with the body of Ashok Tamang, who died on Tuesday night in a hospital where he was admitted after being allegedly injured in Saturday&#8217;s clashes between the police and GJM supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Hydel Power Corporation has shut down its hydel power plant at Ramdi in Darjeeling hills after a mob of over 600 people began agitation outside the plant site, a NHPC official said on Thursday. &#8220;We had shut down operation of Teesta Low Dam III plan of 132 MW as a precaution after a mob over than 600 people gheraoed the site and began agitation,&#8221; the NHPC official told PTI. The official said the regional head of NHPC is slated to meet the West Bengal Power secretary here today to discuss the issue. &#8220;We had already written to state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121036","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}