{"id":381770,"date":"2020-11-02T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381770"},"modified":"2020-11-02T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:33:50","slug":"power-crisis-in-punjab-turns-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-crisis-in-punjab-turns-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Power crisis in Punjab turns serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab is facing \u201cserious\u201d power crisis. Four out if its five thermal plants are shut down as the movement of coal rakes in the State has remained suspended for about a month in view of the farmers\u2019 stir. The State power utility on Friday said that imposing power cuts may be \u201cthe only option available\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal had a few days ago sought the Punjab Government\u2019s assurance on the safety of trains and their crew members to restore freight services after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had asked him to intervene to resume the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab is facing \u201cserious\u201d power crisis. Four out if its five thermal plants are shut down as the movement of coal rakes in the State has remained suspended for about a month in view of the farmers\u2019 stir. The State power utility on Friday said that imposing power cuts may be \u201cthe only option available\u201d. Notably, the Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal had a few days ago sought the Punjab Government\u2019s assurance on the safety of trains and their crew members to restore freight services after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had asked him to intervene to resume the same.<\/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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381770","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=381770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}