{"id":457342,"date":"2021-12-20T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457342"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:47:02","slug":"over-20000-staff-in-jammu-and-kashmir-protest-decision-of-merging-state-power-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-20000-staff-in-jammu-and-kashmir-protest-decision-of-merging-state-power-grids\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20,000 staff in Jammu and Kashmir protest decision of merging state power grids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From linesmen to engineers, around 20,000 employees of Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Power Transmission and Distribution Corporations went on an indefinite strike on Saturday to protest against the administration\u2019s decision to merge the Jammu and Kashmir divisions with the Power Grid Corporation of India.<\/p>\n<p>The strike began after two rounds of talks failed to break the stalemate. The protesters \u2014 who said they will ensure supply of power for essential services \u2014 are opposed to the merger with the central government entity. It was announced by the J&amp;K administration on December 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From linesmen to engineers, around 20,000 employees of Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Power Transmission and Distribution Corporations went on an indefinite strike on Saturday to protest against the administration\u2019s decision to merge the Jammu and Kashmir divisions with the Power Grid Corporation of India. The strike began after two rounds of talks failed to break the stalemate. The protesters \u2014 who said they will ensure supply of power for essential services \u2014 are opposed to the merger with the central government entity. It was announced by the J&amp;K administration on December 4.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457342","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=457342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}