{"id":587875,"date":"2023-06-28T11:20:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=587875"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:57:08","slug":"stay-away-from-poles-in-rains-but-what-about-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stay-away-from-poles-in-rains-but-what-about-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay away from poles in rains, but what about negligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The tragedy at the New Delhi railway station complex, where a 34-year-old woman died of electrocution after accidentally touching a live wire following heavy rainfall, comes as a reminder of this age-old monsoon risk in Mumbai and its outskirts. <\/p>\n<p>In this rain-lashed region, the lives of ordinary citizens are constantly endangered due to exposed wires, inadequate maintenance of electric lines, distribution point (DP) panels, and poles. Earlier in the month, a six-year-old girl, Tehreen Iftekhar, was electrocuted in Santacruz (East), and two other children injured, because of accidental contact with an iron framework connected to an exposed live wire from a streetlight pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The tragedy at the New Delhi railway station complex, where a 34-year-old woman died of electrocution after accidentally touching a live wire following heavy rainfall, comes as a reminder of this age-old monsoon risk in Mumbai and its outskirts. In this rain-lashed region, the lives of ordinary citizens are constantly endangered due to exposed wires, inadequate maintenance of electric lines, distribution point (DP) panels, and poles. Earlier in the month, a six-year-old girl, Tehreen Iftekhar, was electrocuted in Santacruz (East), and two other children injured, because of accidental contact with an iron framework connected to an exposed live wire [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587875","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=587875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}