{"id":345653,"date":"2020-04-06T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345653"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:28:33","slug":"your-electrical-appliances-wont-be-harmed-during-pm-modis-9-pm-lights-out-event-assures-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/your-electrical-appliances-wont-be-harmed-during-pm-modis-9-pm-lights-out-event-assures-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Your electrical appliances won\u2019t be harmed during PM Modi\u2019s 9 pm lights out event, assures government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dispelling doubts about the possible impact on electric appliances due to the call for lights out on April 5, 2020, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Power Ministry said that adequate arrangements and protocols are in place to handle the variation in demand. \u201cSome apprehensions have been expressed that this may cause instability in the grid and fluctuation in voltage which may harm the electrical appliances,\u201d the statement from the ministry said. These apprehensions are \u201cmisplaced\u201d as Indian electricity grid is \u201crobust and stable,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Modi had urged 130 crore Indians on Friday to voluntarily switch off their lights for nine minutes from 9:00 PM till 9:09 PM on Sunday. \u201cListen carefully, on the 5thof April, at 9 PM, turn off all the lights in your homes, stand at your doors or in your balconies, and light candles or diyas, torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes,\u201d he said in his brief address to the country, in order to \u201cdefeat the deep darkness of the crisis, by spreading the glory of light in all four directions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispelling doubts about the possible impact on electric appliances due to the call for lights out on April 5, 2020, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Power Ministry said that adequate arrangements and protocols are in place to handle the variation in demand. \u201cSome apprehensions have been expressed that this may cause instability in the grid and fluctuation in voltage which may harm the electrical appliances,\u201d the statement from the ministry said. These apprehensions are \u201cmisplaced\u201d as Indian electricity grid is \u201crobust and stable,\u201d it said. Modi had urged 130 crore Indians on Friday to voluntarily switch off their [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345653","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=345653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}