{"id":656738,"date":"2025-12-18T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656738"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:49:03","slug":"ludhiana-pspcl-staff-to-hold-nine-day-relay-hunger-strike-from-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ludhiana-pspcl-staff-to-hold-nine-day-relay-hunger-strike-from-jan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludhiana: PSPCL staff to hold nine-day relay hunger strike from Jan 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The employees and pensioners\u2019 union of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on Wednesday announced a nine-day relay hunger strike from January 1 to protest against the state government\u2019s proposal to sale the power department\u2019s land under its OUVGL (optimum use of vacant government lands) scheme. They described the move as the \u201csystematic corporatisation\u201d of the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing this agitation, union leaders said they had exhausted all democratic means of protest over the past several months, including circle level sit-ins across Punjab between October 16 and October 31, a protest march outside the residence of the power minister in Ludhiana on November 2 and demonstrations during the Tarn Taran byelection campaign on November 9. Despite this, they alleged that both the state government and the PSPCL management continued to ignore their demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The employees and pensioners\u2019 union of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) on Wednesday announced a nine-day relay hunger strike from January 1 to protest against the state government\u2019s proposal to sale the power department\u2019s land under its OUVGL (optimum use of vacant government lands) scheme. They described the move as the \u201csystematic corporatisation\u201d of the power sector. Announcing this agitation, union leaders said they had exhausted all democratic means of protest over the past several months, including circle level sit-ins across Punjab between October 16 and October 31, a protest march outside the residence of the power minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656738","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}