{"id":588907,"date":"2023-07-04T11:20:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=588907"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T08:07:55","slug":"derc-chiefs-oath-taking-deferred-to-july-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/derc-chiefs-oath-taking-deferred-to-july-6\/","title":{"rendered":"DERC Chief\u2019s oath-taking deferred to July 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oath-taking ceremony for justice (Retd) Umesh Kumar as the Chairperson of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has been delayed again. Despite expressing his availability for the ceremony, Justice (Retd) Umesh Kumar has been kept in limbo since June 26, 2023. To overcome the current situation Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena has again written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, urging him to ensure the prompt administration of the oath of office and secrecy to Justice (Retd) Umesh Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Saxena advised the Chief Minister that Minister of Power should administer the oath virtually through a video-conference or video call, and  if the Minister is unable to do so, the  Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal or any other designated Minister may administer the oath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oath-taking ceremony for justice (Retd) Umesh Kumar as the Chairperson of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has been delayed again. Despite expressing his availability for the ceremony, Justice (Retd) Umesh Kumar has been kept in limbo since June 26, 2023. To overcome the current situation Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena has again written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, urging him to ensure the prompt administration of the oath of office and secrecy to Justice (Retd) Umesh Kumar. In his letter, Saxena advised the Chief Minister that Minister of Power should administer the oath virtually through a video-conference [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588907","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=588907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}