{"id":544832,"date":"2022-12-24T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T07:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=544832"},"modified":"2022-12-24T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T08:22:02","slug":"a-tragedy-in-the-making-dangling-electric-wires-decaying-poles-pose-life-threat-to-handwara-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-tragedy-in-the-making-dangling-electric-wires-decaying-poles-pose-life-threat-to-handwara-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"A TRAGEDY IN THE MAKING | Dangling electric wires, decaying poles pose life threat to Handwara villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kupwara, Dec 23: The residents of Gund Chogal in Handwara have accused the Power Development Department (PDD) of \u201csloppy approach\u201d in erecting electric transmission poles leaving residents in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Locals said that they were living under a constant threat due to low-lying transmission lines tied to rooftops of residential houses and trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the poles installed in the area got damaged decades ago but the PDD has failed to install new poles,\u201d said Abdul Rashid War, a local youth. \u201cIt is more dangerous in the rain. Sometimes, the branches of trees fall on electric wires. Our children are in danger as, at many places, wires are hanging within the reach of a hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kupwara, Dec 23: The residents of Gund Chogal in Handwara have accused the Power Development Department (PDD) of \u201csloppy approach\u201d in erecting electric transmission poles leaving residents in danger. Locals said that they were living under a constant threat due to low-lying transmission lines tied to rooftops of residential houses and trees. \u201cMost of the poles installed in the area got damaged decades ago but the PDD has failed to install new poles,\u201d said Abdul Rashid War, a local youth. \u201cIt is more dangerous in the rain. Sometimes, the branches of trees fall on electric wires. Our children are in [&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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544832","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\/544832","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=544832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}