{"id":399777,"date":"2021-02-10T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399777"},"modified":"2021-02-10T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T05:10:08","slug":"93-ntpc-workers-are-missing-39-still-stuck-in-the-tunnel-union-power-minister-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/93-ntpc-workers-are-missing-39-still-stuck-in-the-tunnel-union-power-minister-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"93 NTPC workers are missing, 39 still stuck in the tunnel: Union Power Minister RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Power Minister RK Singh today said that 93 workers of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited(NTPC) are still missing due to the avalanche caused by a glacial burst in Uttarakhand&#8217;s Chamoli district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;93 NTPC workers are missing, 39 still stuck in the tunnel, we&#8217;re trying to reach them. We are planning to install Early Warning System as a precautionary measure against avalanche. Financial aid of \u20b920 lakhs will be given to deceased&#8217;s family,&#8221; RK Singh said while speaking to news agency ANI.<\/p>\n<p>The Uttarakhand glacier burst has caused an estimated loss of \u20b91,500 crore at the NTPC&#8217;s 480 mw Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project.<\/p>\n<p>RK Singh 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Power Minister RK Singh today said that 93 workers of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited(NTPC) are still missing due to the avalanche caused by a glacial burst in Uttarakhand&#8217;s Chamoli district. &#8220;93 NTPC workers are missing, 39 still stuck in the tunnel, we&#8217;re trying to reach them. We are planning to install Early Warning System as a precautionary measure against avalanche. Financial aid of \u20b920 lakhs will be given to deceased&#8217;s family,&#8221; RK Singh said while speaking to news agency ANI. The Uttarakhand glacier burst has caused an estimated loss of \u20b91,500 crore at the NTPC&#8217;s 480 mw Tapovan-Vishnugad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399777","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}