{"id":367878,"date":"2020-08-14T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367878"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:20:22","slug":"delhi-discoms-warn-against-kites-with-metal-coated-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-discoms-warn-against-kites-with-metal-coated-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Discoms warn against kites with metal-coated strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urging people to not fly kites near electrical installations during the Independence Day celebrations, discoms in Delhi \u2014 the BSES and TPDDL \u2014 issued advisories against metal-coated manjha that can interfere with electrical wirings and lead to power outages. Metal coated manjhas can lead to tripping of power connections and even electrocutions.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, BSES said, \u201cThe kites in itself are not the problem; it\u2019s the metal coated thread or manjha \u2014 being a good conductor of electricity \u2014 which poses a great danger to not only the person flying the kite, but may also disrupt electrical supply of an area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urging people to not fly kites near electrical installations during the Independence Day celebrations, discoms in Delhi \u2014 the BSES and TPDDL \u2014 issued advisories against metal-coated manjha that can interfere with electrical wirings and lead to power outages. Metal coated manjhas can lead to tripping of power connections and even electrocutions. In a press release, BSES said, \u201cThe kites in itself are not the problem; it\u2019s the metal coated thread or manjha \u2014 being a good conductor of electricity \u2014 which poses a great danger to not only the person flying the kite, but may also disrupt electrical supply [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367878","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=367878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}