{"id":366638,"date":"2020-08-07T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T05:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366638"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:25:01","slug":"time-to-throw-light-on-bengalurus-power-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/time-to-throw-light-on-bengalurus-power-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to throw light on Bengaluru&#8217;s power heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first cities to get power supply for domestic use, Bengaluru is now home to several buildings which were built as substations established years after the city received power in 1905 to tell the tales of the then Mysore State though their heritage value is yet to be recognised by the government.<\/p>\n<p>When Prince and Princess of Wales (George V and Queen Mary) visited Mysore State back in 1905-06, they were surprised by the farsightedness of the then Mysore Government, which &#8220;used part of the surplus funds in its treasury&#8221; to establish a &#8220;great power station&#8221; and supplied electricity to Bengaluru. &#8220;This bold and rather speculative enterprise could hardly have been initiated by a British province which has no money save what it raises by taxation,&#8221; noted Sidney Low, who chronicled the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first cities to get power supply for domestic use, Bengaluru is now home to several buildings which were built as substations established years after the city received power in 1905 to tell the tales of the then Mysore State though their heritage value is yet to be recognised by the government. When Prince and Princess of Wales (George V and Queen Mary) visited Mysore State back in 1905-06, they were surprised by the farsightedness of the then Mysore Government, which &#8220;used part of the surplus funds in its treasury&#8221; to establish a &#8220;great power station&#8221; and supplied [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366638","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=366638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}