{"id":471877,"date":"2022-02-28T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=471877"},"modified":"2022-02-28T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T07:44:58","slug":"how-kashmirs-daredevil-linemen-work-without-official-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-kashmirs-daredevil-linemen-work-without-official-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kashmir\u2019s Daredevil Linemen Work Without Official Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Ashraf Sofi, 33, a daily-wage lineman, of central Kashmir\u2019s district Budgam was performing his duties when he received a severe electric shock and fell off the ladder. A week later he regained consciousness with his left arm amputated at tertiary Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar. <\/p>\n<p>One year on, Sofi along with his colleagues continue to toil hard to provide hassle-free services to the people amid all weather conditions in Kashmir region.<\/p>\n<p>Like Sofi, hundreds of daily-wage linemen with Jammu Kashmir\u2019s Power Development Department (JKPDD) have been narrating their ordeal. However; these sad stories have been going to the deaf ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Ashraf Sofi, 33, a daily-wage lineman, of central Kashmir\u2019s district Budgam was performing his duties when he received a severe electric shock and fell off the ladder. A week later he regained consciousness with his left arm amputated at tertiary Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar. One year on, Sofi along with his colleagues continue to toil hard to provide hassle-free services to the people amid all weather conditions in Kashmir region. Like Sofi, hundreds of daily-wage linemen with Jammu Kashmir\u2019s Power Development Department (JKPDD) have been narrating their ordeal. However; these sad stories have been going to 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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-power-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471877","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=471877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}