{"id":567515,"date":"2023-04-01T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=567515"},"modified":"2023-04-01T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T07:06:36","slug":"illegal-tube-well-connections-angry-farmers-gherao-pspcl-chief-engineers-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/illegal-tube-well-connections-angry-farmers-gherao-pspcl-chief-engineers-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Illegal\u2019 tube well connections: Angry farmers gherao PSPCL chief engineer\u2019s residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers of various villages of Rampura Phul constituency of Bathinda district stayed put on Thursday after they gheraoed the official residence of PSPCL chief engineer \u2013 distribution (west zone) in Bathinda district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, Punnerdeep Singh Brar \u2013 chief engineer, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) \u2013 and his family had left the official residence ahead of this dharna. Sources say perhaps the PSPCL chief engineer was tipped off about the protest and so he could keep himself and family out of harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>The trigger for the protest was PSPCL rejecting farmers\u2019 plea to replace the damaged transformers of tube wells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers of various villages of Rampura Phul constituency of Bathinda district stayed put on Thursday after they gheraoed the official residence of PSPCL chief engineer \u2013 distribution (west zone) in Bathinda district on Wednesday. However, Punnerdeep Singh Brar \u2013 chief engineer, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) \u2013 and his family had left the official residence ahead of this dharna. Sources say perhaps the PSPCL chief engineer was tipped off about the protest and so he could keep himself and family out of harm\u2019s way. The trigger for the protest was PSPCL rejecting farmers\u2019 plea to replace the damaged transformers [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567515","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=567515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}