{"id":367088,"date":"2020-08-10T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367088"},"modified":"2020-08-10T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T07:01:04","slug":"3-jammu-and-kashmir-villages-connected-to-national-electric-grid-after-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/3-jammu-and-kashmir-villages-connected-to-national-electric-grid-after-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Jammu and Kashmir villages connected to national electric grid after 75 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiating months of heavy snowing and the Covid-19 lockdown, the Kupwara district administration connected three villages located along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Keran area to the national electricity grid, ending a wait since Independence for power supply. <\/p>\n<p>The job was not easy, officials said, recalling the acute shortage of manpower for the work after restrictions were imposed following the abrogation of Article 370 and the imposition of lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<p>It is an arduous five hours journey to Keran from here on a fair-weather road that meanders through apple and walnut orchards of the Kashmir Valley and the Pherkian Pass at 10,000 feet in the Shamasbari Ranges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiating months of heavy snowing and the Covid-19 lockdown, the Kupwara district administration connected three villages located along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Keran area to the national electricity grid, ending a wait since Independence for power supply. The job was not easy, officials said, recalling the acute shortage of manpower for the work after restrictions were imposed following the abrogation of Article 370 and the imposition of lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic It is an arduous five hours journey to Keran from here on a fair-weather road that meanders through apple and walnut orchards of [&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-367088","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\/367088","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=367088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}