{"id":584812,"date":"2023-06-16T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584812"},"modified":"2023-06-16T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T05:07:56","slug":"cyclone-biparjoy-heavy-rains-strong-winds-damage-electric-poles-in-morbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cyclone-biparjoy-heavy-rains-strong-winds-damage-electric-poles-in-morbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Biparjoy: Heavy rains, strong winds damage electric poles in Morbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains and gusty winds at a speed of over 115-120 kilometres per hour created havoc in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi district, damaging over 300 electric poles, leading to power outage in around 45 villages, after Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall in coastal areas of the state on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited (PGVCL) said that efforts are underway to restore power in nine of the affected villages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Strong winds broke electric wires and poles, causing a power outage in 45 villages of Maliya tehsil. We are restoring power in 9 villages and power has been restored in the remaining villages,&#8221; PGVCL&#8217;s executive engineer, Morbi, JC Goswami told ANI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains and gusty winds at a speed of over 115-120 kilometres per hour created havoc in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi district, damaging over 300 electric poles, leading to power outage in around 45 villages, after Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall in coastal areas of the state on Thursday evening. Officials with the Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited (PGVCL) said that efforts are underway to restore power in nine of the affected villages. &#8220;Strong winds broke electric wires and poles, causing a power outage in 45 villages of Maliya tehsil. We are restoring power in 9 villages and power has been restored in [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584812","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=584812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}