{"id":457688,"date":"2021-12-21T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457688"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:37:32","slug":"jks-decision-to-hand-over-power-assets-trigger-strike-by-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jks-decision-to-hand-over-power-assets-trigger-strike-by-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;K&#8217;s decision to hand over power assets trigger strike by employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jammu and Kashmir government\u2019s decision to hand over the Union Territory\u2019s power assets to a central government undertaking, seen as a ruse for privatisation, has triggered a strike by nearly 20,000 employees and plunged swathes of the region into darkness amid freezing cold.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha\u2019s government has decided to enter into a joint venture with the Power Grid Corporation of India, turning the central entity into a 50 per cent shareholder in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s power assets.<\/p>\n<p>The employees believe that privatisation will be the next step, especially with the Centre having told Parliament recently that it plans to privatise the power sectors of the Union Territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jammu and Kashmir government\u2019s decision to hand over the Union Territory\u2019s power assets to a central government undertaking, seen as a ruse for privatisation, has triggered a strike by nearly 20,000 employees and plunged swathes of the region into darkness amid freezing cold. Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha\u2019s government has decided to enter into a joint venture with the Power Grid Corporation of India, turning the central entity into a 50 per cent shareholder in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s power assets. The employees believe that privatisation will be the next step, especially with the Centre having told Parliament recently that it [&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":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457688","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=457688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}