{"id":457626,"date":"2021-12-21T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457626"},"modified":"2021-12-21T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:35:15","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-admn-centre-face-criticism-over-power-privatisation-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jammu-and-kashmir-admn-centre-face-criticism-over-power-privatisation-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir admn, Centre face criticism over power privatisation move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration in Jammu and Kashmir and the Central government is facing increasing criticism for the decision of privatisation of the power sector and calling of the army following the strike of power development department (PDD) employees since Friday night plunged major areas of the union territory into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream as well as separatist organisations have castigated government\u2019s decision to privatise the PDD department\u2019s assets and proposal to merge JKPDD into the Power Grid Corporation of India. The employees\u2019 strike and the administration\u2019s intransigence have put thousands of J&amp;K residents to extreme hardships amid bone-chilling temperatures and Covid-19 pandemic as hundreds of patients are struggling to keep on to their oxygen concentrators.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti connected the issue with the Government of India\u2019s decision of revocation of Article 370.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration in Jammu and Kashmir and the Central government is facing increasing criticism for the decision of privatisation of the power sector and calling of the army following the strike of power development department (PDD) employees since Friday night plunged major areas of the union territory into darkness. Mainstream as well as separatist organisations have castigated government\u2019s decision to privatise the PDD department\u2019s assets and proposal to merge JKPDD into the Power Grid Corporation of India. The employees\u2019 strike and the administration\u2019s intransigence have put thousands of J&amp;K residents to extreme hardships amid bone-chilling temperatures and Covid-19 pandemic as [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457626","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=457626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}