{"id":340371,"date":"2020-03-04T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340371"},"modified":"2020-03-04T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T07:21:23","slug":"mcd-doesnt-need-upcl-permission-to-erect-street-lights-on-its-own-land-pandey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mcd-doesnt-need-upcl-permission-to-erect-street-lights-on-its-own-land-pandey\/","title":{"rendered":"MCD doesn\u2019t need UPCL permission to erect street lights on its own land: Pandey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) does not require the permission of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) to erect an electricity pole on its own land, said Dehradun municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey.<\/p>\n<p>The municipal corporation has reportedly installed hundreds of street lights in the city but did not seek permission from the UPCL. Besides, the corporation has not taken any electricity connection from UPCL due to which MCD is not paying any electricity bill too.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the matter, Pandey said, \u201cI have talked to the administration of UPCL and asked them to send someone from their staff to have a discussion with us. We also requested a meeting earlier regarding the matter but nobody came from UPCL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) does not require the permission of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) to erect an electricity pole on its own land, said Dehradun municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey. The municipal corporation has reportedly installed hundreds of street lights in the city but did not seek permission from the UPCL. Besides, the corporation has not taken any electricity connection from UPCL due to which MCD is not paying any electricity bill too. Talking about the matter, Pandey said, \u201cI have talked to the administration of UPCL and asked them to send someone from their staff to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340371","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}