{"id":236148,"date":"2023-04-04T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236148"},"modified":"2023-04-05T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:49:08","slug":"shock-awful-poorly-installed-maintained-high-power-cables-kill-thousands-every-year-but-official-apathy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shock-awful-poorly-installed-maintained-high-power-cables-kill-thousands-every-year-but-official-apathy-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock & Awful \u2013 Poorly installed & maintained high-power cables kill thousands every year, but official apathy continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cShock & Awful \u2013 Poorly installed & maintained high-power cables kill thousands every year, but official apathy continues<\/strong>\u201d published in The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a04th<\/sup> April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong>Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>death caused by <\/strong>electrocution.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: A British tourist has died in Himachal Pradesh from electrocution. The low-hanging high-voltage cable was installed by a major public sector undertaking – NHPC. Despite complaints to remove the cable, NHPC has not yet responded.<\/p>\n

What are the concerns airing from the low-hanging high-voltage cables?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

High power cables are often poorly installed close to houses with improper maintenance<\/strong>, especially in the urban areas.<\/p>\n

Discoms hardly take any note of it and they are also little accountable to the death<\/strong> caused by those wires.<\/p>\n

As per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2021 report<\/strong>, electrocution accounted for over 12,500 casualties, including 650 children aged below 14. This implies 34 people dying daily from electrocution.<\/p>\n

These deaths are classified as accidents by NCRB. However, these deaths are the result of administrative negligence and apathy.<\/p>\n

Further, election promises have led to unauthorized urban growth, making the problem more complex for cities.<\/p>\n

What are some of the steps taken to prevent such deaths?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kerala high court<\/strong> recently directed municipalities to remove such cables. Some towns have undertaken projects to underground electricity lines, but the speed of work has been inconsistent.<\/p>\n

Despite these attempts, the issue is worsening due to a lack of planning for cities and towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cShock & Awful \u2013 Poorly installed & maintained high-power cables kill thousands every year, but official apathy continues\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a04th April 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance: death caused by electrocution. News: A British tourist has died in Himachal Pradesh from electrocution.… Continue reading Shock & Awful \u2013 Poorly installed & maintained high-power cables kill thousands every year, but official apathy continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[11368,212,10496],"class_list":["post-236148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-electrocution","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701343524},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}