{"id":478787,"date":"2022-03-25T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478787"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:20:07","slug":"transformer-blast-bescom-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transformer-blast-bescom-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformer blast: Bescom to pay Rs 10-lakh compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state government will conduct an audit to identify dangerous transformers, Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement came shortly after Chaithanya, a 19-year-old woman who had suffered 50 per cent burns in a transformer blast at Manganahalli, near Jnanabharathi, died. Her father, Shivaraj, 55, died on Wednesday after suffering 70 per cent burns. <\/p>\n<p>The minister also announced that Bescom would pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the victims. He also promised a probe into the delay in the official response to a complaint on fumes emitting from the transformer and action against those responsible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government will conduct an audit to identify dangerous transformers, Energy Minister V Sunil Kumar told the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. The announcement came shortly after Chaithanya, a 19-year-old woman who had suffered 50 per cent burns in a transformer blast at Manganahalli, near Jnanabharathi, died. Her father, Shivaraj, 55, died on Wednesday after suffering 70 per cent burns. The minister also announced that Bescom would pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the victims. He also promised a probe into the delay in the official response to a complaint on fumes emitting from the transformer and [&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-478787","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\/478787","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=478787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}