{"id":398139,"date":"2021-01-30T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398139"},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T06:39:29","slug":"darkness-under-the-lamp-in-kishangangas-backyard-bandipora-residents-without-basic-amenities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/darkness-under-the-lamp-in-kishangangas-backyard-bandipora-residents-without-basic-amenities\/","title":{"rendered":"DARKNESS UNDER THE LAMP | In Kishanganga&#8217;s backyard, Bandipora residents without basic amenities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being in the backyard of the 330 MW Kishangangahydel power project, Pethkoot and its adjoining villages in north Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district are bereft of basic amenities including proper power supply. <\/p>\n<p>Talking to the Greater Kashmir, several villagers here said that they were being denied basic facilities like proper healthcare, potable water and roads for decades, subjecting them to numerous hassles. <\/p>\n<p>The residents said that they had made several representations to the administration but the outcome had only made them feel helpless. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the power project being located here, we haven\u2019t seen any benefits in terms of daily needs. Our village hardly sees uninterrupted power supply for an hour even as the Power Development Department has been collecting huge bills,\u201d said GhulamRasool Malik, a middle-aged villager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being in the backyard of the 330 MW Kishangangahydel power project, Pethkoot and its adjoining villages in north Kashmir\u2019s Bandipora district are bereft of basic amenities including proper power supply. Talking to the Greater Kashmir, several villagers here said that they were being denied basic facilities like proper healthcare, potable water and roads for decades, subjecting them to numerous hassles. The residents said that they had made several representations to the administration but the outcome had only made them feel helpless. \u201cDespite the power project being located here, we haven\u2019t seen any benefits in terms of daily needs. Our [&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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-power-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398139","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=398139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}