{"id":482352,"date":"2022-04-05T11:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482352"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:03:19","slug":"publicity-stunt-costs-power-man-his-job-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/publicity-stunt-costs-power-man-his-job-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicity stunt costs \u2018power man\u2019 his job in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A publicity stunt has cost a rural revenue franchisee his job in Bihar\u2019s Sheohar district, power officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a video clip gone viral, Abhijit Tiwari, tasked with collection of energy bills from consumers, is seen riding a horse in rural Sheohar to collect payment against energy bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiwari now says he was instigated by a local journalist to act in the manner he did and say on camera that he preferred riding a horse than using his motorbike for collection of energy bills as petrol had become dearer,\u201d said Shrawan Thakur, electrical executive engineer of Sheohar, North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited (NBPDCL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A publicity stunt has cost a rural revenue franchisee his job in Bihar\u2019s Sheohar district, power officials said on Monday. In a video clip gone viral, Abhijit Tiwari, tasked with collection of energy bills from consumers, is seen riding a horse in rural Sheohar to collect payment against energy bills. \u201cTiwari now says he was instigated by a local journalist to act in the manner he did and say on camera that he preferred riding a horse than using his motorbike for collection of energy bills as petrol had become dearer,\u201d said Shrawan Thakur, electrical executive engineer of Sheohar, North [&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-482352","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\/482352","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=482352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}