{"id":262493,"date":"2019-03-05T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T07:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262493"},"modified":"2019-03-05T07:54:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T07:54:18","slug":"lead-sheathed-underground-cables-here-to-stay-says-power-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lead-sheathed-underground-cables-here-to-stay-says-power-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead-sheathed underground cables here to stay, says Power Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has declined to ban Indian power and transmission utilities from using high-voltage power cables containing toxic chemical \u2014 lead \u2014 while laying the underground transmission lines.<\/p>\n<p>The CII had, in December last year, called for the Power Ministry&#8217;s intervention as the practice led to environmental degradation and caused health problems.<\/p>\n<p>In its response to the CII representation, the Ministry has, however, noted that \u201clead-sheathed power cables in underground application is traditionally a widely used product which is well proved and time-tested\u201d. While \u201cswitching to greener alternatives is an obvious choice to protect the environment and address the health concerns\u201d, power cable manufacturers need to be \u201cencouraged to innovate more and prove that the alternatives are as rugged and reliable as lead-sheathed cables,\u201d the letter suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has declined to ban Indian power and transmission utilities from using high-voltage power cables containing toxic chemical \u2014 lead \u2014 while laying the underground transmission lines. The CII had, in December last year, called for the Power Ministry&#8217;s intervention as the practice led to environmental degradation and caused health problems. In its response to the CII representation, the Ministry has, however, noted that \u201clead-sheathed power cables in underground application is traditionally a widely used product which is well proved and time-tested\u201d. While \u201cswitching to greener alternatives is an obvious choice to protect the environment and address the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262493","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}