{"id":457343,"date":"2021-12-20T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457343"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T06:48:39","slug":"employees-strike-one-third-of-jammu-without-power-admin-seeks-army-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/employees-strike-one-third-of-jammu-without-power-admin-seeks-army-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees\u2019 Strike: One-third of Jammu without power, admin seeks Army help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jammu and Kashmir administration sought the Army\u2019s help on Sunday as a strike by employees of the power department affected essential services, including a hospital, and plunged large parts of the Union Territory into darkness amidst a harsh winter.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 employees, including linesmen and engineers, of the UT\u2019s power transmission and distribution corporations are on a strike since Saturday against the administration\u2019s decision to privatise assets and delay in payment of salaries. <\/p>\n<p>With more than a third of Jammu division without electricity, Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer wrote a letter to the Ministry of Defence, the General Officers Commanding of 9 and 16 Corps, and sought personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jammu and Kashmir administration sought the Army\u2019s help on Sunday as a strike by employees of the power department affected essential services, including a hospital, and plunged large parts of the Union Territory into darkness amidst a harsh winter. More than 20,000 employees, including linesmen and engineers, of the UT\u2019s power transmission and distribution corporations are on a strike since Saturday against the administration\u2019s decision to privatise assets and delay in payment of salaries. With more than a third of Jammu division without electricity, Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer wrote a letter to the Ministry of Defence, the [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457343","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=457343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}