{"id":383955,"date":"2020-11-13T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383955"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T03:55:35","slug":"bengal-to-constitute-anti-electrocution-cells-to-protect-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengal-to-constitute-anti-electrocution-cells-to-protect-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal to constitute anti-electrocution cells to protect elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has decided to constitute multi-departmental anti-electrocution cells to protect wild elephants in the state, officials said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The decision in this regard was taken during a recent meeting in north Bengal between officials of the Power and Forest Departments, they said. <\/p>\n<p>The cells will comprise officials of the Forest Directorate, the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL), district administration and police, besides local panchayat members, they said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cells will formulate preventive and mitigation strategies and monitor measures to prevent setting up of illegal electric fences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has decided to constitute multi-departmental anti-electrocution cells to protect wild elephants in the state, officials said on Thursday. The decision in this regard was taken during a recent meeting in north Bengal between officials of the Power and Forest Departments, they said. The cells will comprise officials of the Forest Directorate, the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL), district administration and police, besides local panchayat members, they said. &#8220;The cells will formulate preventive and mitigation strategies and monitor measures to prevent setting up of illegal electric fences.<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383955","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=383955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}