{"id":296150,"date":"2019-10-15T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296150"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:52:21","slug":"opinion-a-gangrenous-wound-that-could-block-indias-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-a-gangrenous-wound-that-could-block-indias-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | A gangrenous wound that could block India\u2019s economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it returned to power with a thumping majority this summer, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been dealing with interruptions to rosy straight-line projections. A cyclical economic downturn exacerbated by continuing banking sector issues, a severe contraction in automobile sector demand, and, most recently, a seven-year low in industrial output appear to have jolted the government.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the government scrambles to respond to this slowdown, structural impediments to long-term growth have been festering. One area where the wounds threaten to turn gangrenous is in the power sector. India\u2019s power sector is a mixed tale of positive and negative developments over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it returned to power with a thumping majority this summer, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been dealing with interruptions to rosy straight-line projections. A cyclical economic downturn exacerbated by continuing banking sector issues, a severe contraction in automobile sector demand, and, most recently, a seven-year low in industrial output appear to have jolted the government. Even as the government scrambles to respond to this slowdown, structural impediments to long-term growth have been festering. One area where the wounds threaten to turn gangrenous is in the power sector. India\u2019s power sector is a mixed tale of [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296150","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=296150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}