{"id":659893,"date":"2026-04-07T12:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659893"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:57:42","slug":"kmvn-gas-manager-dies-colleagues-cite-work-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kmvn-gas-manager-dies-colleagues-cite-work-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"KMVN gas manager dies, colleagues cite &#8216;work pressure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pithoragarh: A 55-year-old manager of Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN) gas agency in Champawat district died on Sunday evening after he returned from work. His colleagues at the gas agency claimed that he consumed a poisonous substance as he could not cope with the work pressure due to the prevailing circumstances in the country because of the conflict in West Asia. However, family members denied this and said the cause of death will be known after the postmortem report comes.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, some KMVN workers went on a strike and did not distribute cooking gas in a few places in Kumaon. Colleagues claimed victim Dayal Singh Rawat had recently told his friend that &#8220;he was crumbling, physically and mentally, due to too much work pressure and he was facing heat from consumers and the administration alike.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pithoragarh: A 55-year-old manager of Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN) gas agency in Champawat district died on Sunday evening after he returned from work. His colleagues at the gas agency claimed that he consumed a poisonous substance as he could not cope with the work pressure due to the prevailing circumstances in the country because of the conflict in West Asia. However, family members denied this and said the cause of death will be known after the postmortem report comes. On Monday, some KMVN workers went on a strike and did not distribute cooking gas in a few places in [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659893","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=659893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}