{"id":660739,"date":"2026-05-21T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660739"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:03:37","slug":"lucknow-power-crisis-deepens-as-repair-staff-strength-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lucknow-power-crisis-deepens-as-repair-staff-strength-shrinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucknow power crisis deepens as repair staff strength shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repeated late-night outages, delayed fault repairs and growing public protests across several Lucknow localities have exposed an alleged manpower crisis in the city\u2019s power distribution system following the implementation of the new \u2018vertical system,\u2019 under which nearly 300 contractual workers were reportedly removed or sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>The restructuring of the electricity distribution network has allegedly weakened the emergency response mechanism of Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) at a time when power demand is soaring during peak summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeated late-night outages, delayed fault repairs and growing public protests across several Lucknow localities have exposed an alleged manpower crisis in the city\u2019s power distribution system following the implementation of the new \u2018vertical system,\u2019 under which nearly 300 contractual workers were reportedly removed or sidelined. The restructuring of the electricity distribution network has allegedly weakened the emergency response mechanism of Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) at a time when power demand is soaring during peak summer.<\/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-660739","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\/660739","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=660739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660740,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660739\/revisions\/660740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}