{"id":285515,"date":"2019-08-01T07:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T07:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285515"},"modified":"2019-08-01T07:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T07:11:33","slug":"power-outage-forces-idukki-family-to-use-jeep-batteries-to-light-up-funeral-pyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-outage-forces-idukki-family-to-use-jeep-batteries-to-light-up-funeral-pyre\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage forces Idukki family to use jeep batteries to light up funeral pyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDUKKI: An electric crematorium that lacks power supply. Sounds ironic, doesn\u2019t it? However, this is the condition of the electric crematorium set up by the Munnar panchayat at Grahamsland Road.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a bereaved family was left in the lurch when it arrived at the crematorium. For, not only did the establishment lack power supply, but the generator used to operate the equipment there also failed to function. After waiting for over an hour, the relatives of the deceased \u2013 a native of Pazhayakadu at Periyavara \u2013 were forced to power up the machine using the battery of the jeep in which they brought the body! This is not new. Set up by the panchayat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDUKKI: An electric crematorium that lacks power supply. Sounds ironic, doesn\u2019t it? However, this is the condition of the electric crematorium set up by the Munnar panchayat at Grahamsland Road. On Wednesday, a bereaved family was left in the lurch when it arrived at the crematorium. For, not only did the establishment lack power supply, but the generator used to operate the equipment there also failed to function. After waiting for over an hour, the relatives of the deceased \u2013 a native of Pazhayakadu at Periyavara \u2013 were forced to power up the machine using the battery of the jeep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285515","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}