{"id":563737,"date":"2023-03-20T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563737"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T05:48:07","slug":"90-of-high-tension-wires-now-underground-bescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/90-of-high-tension-wires-now-underground-bescom\/","title":{"rendered":"90% of high-tension wires now underground: Bescom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bescom is nearing completion of its ambitious plan to lay high-tension wires across the city underground.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) shows that it has taken close to 6,600 kilometres of high-tension lines underground out of an estimated 7,033 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had problems with completing the project only in a few areas because we have not been able to get road-cutting permissions and an opportunity to survey the area, thanks to a host of ongoing infrastructural works. Apart from this, majority of the work has been completed,&#8221; a senior Bescom official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bescom is nearing completion of its ambitious plan to lay high-tension wires across the city underground. Data from the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) shows that it has taken close to 6,600 kilometres of high-tension lines underground out of an estimated 7,033 kilometres. &#8220;We have had problems with completing the project only in a few areas because we have not been able to get road-cutting permissions and an opportunity to survey the area, thanks to a host of ongoing infrastructural works. Apart from this, majority of the work has been completed,&#8221; a senior Bescom official said.<\/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-563737","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\/563737","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=563737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}