{"id":353981,"date":"2020-05-28T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353981"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:44:00","slug":"frequent-power-outages-in-rising-heat-make-life-difficult-for-city-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/frequent-power-outages-in-rising-heat-make-life-difficult-for-city-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequent power outages in rising heat make life difficult for city residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the mercury touching 45.5 degrees Celsius (\u02daC), the demand for power has gone up in Gurumgram, but so have the complaints of power outages and volage fluctuations.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is made more acute with children and senior citizens being forced to stay indoors due to the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>In sector 46, residents said power supply has been erratic and that the existing power distribution infrastructure was inadequate to withstand the load. \u201cThere is frequent tripping of transformers, sometimes the power cables snapped and the residents are suffering. The government should privatize the power supply system as there is no solution to these issues,\u201d said RK Yadav, president, sector 46 residents\u2019 welfare association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the mercury touching 45.5 degrees Celsius (\u02daC), the demand for power has gone up in Gurumgram, but so have the complaints of power outages and volage fluctuations. The problem is made more acute with children and senior citizens being forced to stay indoors due to the lockdown. In sector 46, residents said power supply has been erratic and that the existing power distribution infrastructure was inadequate to withstand the load. \u201cThere is frequent tripping of transformers, sometimes the power cables snapped and the residents are suffering. The government should privatize the power supply system as there is no solution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353981","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}