{"id":399630,"date":"2021-02-09T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399630"},"modified":"2021-02-09T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:56:57","slug":"uttarakhand-glacier-disaster-damage-to-ntpc-project-may-delay-its-commissioning-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttarakhand-glacier-disaster-damage-to-ntpc-project-may-delay-its-commissioning-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand glacier disaster: Damage to NTPC project may delay its commissioning, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dehradun: The Sunday&#8217;s avalanche has caused an estimated loss of Rs 1,500 crore to the NTPC NSE 0.75 %&#8217;s 480 mw Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project and has put a question mark on its scheduled commissioning in 2023 with a huge amount of silt lying at the site, Union Power Minister R K Singh said on Monday. The minister visited Tapovan on Monday to assess the extent of damage at the project site, a day after the glacier burst in Chamoli district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project was scheduled to be commissioned in 2023. But there is a question mark now on how long it will take to desilt it as lakhs of tonnes of silt is lying at the project site,&#8221; Singh told reporters in Tapovan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dehradun: The Sunday&#8217;s avalanche has caused an estimated loss of Rs 1,500 crore to the NTPC NSE 0.75 %&#8217;s 480 mw Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project and has put a question mark on its scheduled commissioning in 2023 with a huge amount of silt lying at the site, Union Power Minister R K Singh said on Monday. The minister visited Tapovan on Monday to assess the extent of damage at the project site, a day after the glacier burst in Chamoli district. &#8220;The project was scheduled to be commissioned in 2023. But there is a question mark now on how long it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399630","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}