{"id":658899,"date":"2026-02-26T12:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658899"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:16:35","slug":"amid-protests-uppcl-covers-over-50-employee-houses-in-meter-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-protests-uppcl-covers-over-50-employee-houses-in-meter-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid protests, UPPCL covers over 50% employee houses in meter installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite intensifying protests by power employees over what unions describe as a dilution of long-standing service benefits, the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has crossed the halfway mark in installing prepaid smart meters at employees\u2019 residences under the LMV-10 category.<\/p>\n<p>The latest official data shows 30,247 meters have been installed against 58,462 employee and pensioner connections, taking overall coverage to 51.74%, even as the utility has been forced to revise deadlines amid resistance on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite intensifying protests by power employees over what unions describe as a dilution of long-standing service benefits, the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has crossed the halfway mark in installing prepaid smart meters at employees\u2019 residences under the LMV-10 category. The latest official data shows 30,247 meters have been installed against 58,462 employee and pensioner connections, taking overall coverage to 51.74%, even as the utility has been forced to revise deadlines amid resistance on the ground.<\/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-658899","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\/658899","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=658899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}