{"id":412650,"date":"2021-04-29T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412650"},"modified":"2021-04-29T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:24:29","slug":"power-ministry-asks-states-to-prioritise-vaccination-for-power-sector-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-ministry-asks-states-to-prioritise-vaccination-for-power-sector-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Ministry asks states to prioritise vaccination for power sector employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has written to states asking them to prioritise vaccination of power sector employees to ensure there is no disruption in electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p>A senior official in the centre said the infection rate in Centre-controlled PSUs and organisations is nearly 5% during the second wave of the pandemic but more severe in metros like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Lucknow. The power ministry administered CPSUs are likely to tie up with private hospital chains for mass staff vaccination at centres where infection spread is high, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has written to states asking them to prioritise vaccination of power sector employees to ensure there is no disruption in electricity supply. A senior official in the centre said the infection rate in Centre-controlled PSUs and organisations is nearly 5% during the second wave of the pandemic but more severe in metros like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Lucknow. The power ministry administered CPSUs are likely to tie up with private hospital chains for mass staff vaccination at centres where infection spread is high, he said.<\/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-412650","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\/412650","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=412650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}