{"id":411720,"date":"2021-04-23T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411720"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:09:47","slug":"govt-working-to-keep-lights-on-as-virus-hits-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-working-to-keep-lights-on-as-virus-hits-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt working to keep lights on as virus hits workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a growing number of power sector personnel testing positive for covid-19, the government is pulling out all stops to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply across the country, two government officials aware of the preparations said.<\/p>\n<p>A standard operating procedure has been put in place for all central power projects to prepare for peak summer demand. Also, an aggressive vaccination campaign is on for inoculating central power sector personnel, with 60% of people above 45 years already vaccinated. <\/p>\n<p>Power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh on Thursday conducted a review meeting, attended by officials from the two ministries and heads of central public sector units (PSUs) such as NTPC Ltd, NHPC Ltd and Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a growing number of power sector personnel testing positive for covid-19, the government is pulling out all stops to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply across the country, two government officials aware of the preparations said. A standard operating procedure has been put in place for all central power projects to prepare for peak summer demand. Also, an aggressive vaccination campaign is on for inoculating central power sector personnel, with 60% of people above 45 years already vaccinated. Power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh on Thursday conducted a review meeting, attended by officials from the two ministries [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411720","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\/411720","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=411720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}