{"id":472652,"date":"2022-03-03T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T05:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472652"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:31:04","slug":"limited-road-cutting-permission-stalls-underground-power-cabling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/limited-road-cutting-permission-stalls-underground-power-cabling\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited road-cutting permission stalls underground power cabling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBMP\u2019s stringency in giving permissions for road-cutting has hit the pace of Bescom\u2019s work to convert overhead cables into underground lines. <\/p>\n<p>The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has limited the number of permissions granted for road-cutting after the poor quality of roads came under the high court\u2019s scrutiny and criticism from the public. <\/p>\n<p>Though the original deadline to complete the first two phases of laying the underground power cables was October 2021, officials said they may need one more month to complete the pending work. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes days to get permission for road-cutting from the BBMP,\u201d said a Bescom engineer working on the project. \u201cWe also must work with the BWSSB and gas companies to ensure we don\u2019t damage their utilities.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBMP\u2019s stringency in giving permissions for road-cutting has hit the pace of Bescom\u2019s work to convert overhead cables into underground lines. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has limited the number of permissions granted for road-cutting after the poor quality of roads came under the high court\u2019s scrutiny and criticism from the public. Though the original deadline to complete the first two phases of laying the underground power cables was October 2021, officials said they may need one more month to complete the pending work. \u201cIt takes days to get permission for road-cutting from the BBMP,\u201d said a Bescom [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472652","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=472652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}