{"id":310805,"date":"2020-01-17T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310805"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:13:27","slug":"how-selco-solar-is-helping-create-livelihoods-for-people-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-selco-solar-is-helping-create-livelihoods-for-people-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"How Selco Solar is helping create livelihoods for people in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laptop printers may not be directly connected to solar energy. However, solar energy is one of the main reasons petty shops in rural areas are installing laptop printers to make photocopies. Also, production of traditional earthen pots may be on the decline in many parts of the country. However, a solar-powered potter\u2019s wheel is helping revive this profession in some areas of the country. These products, along with others such as solar-powered milking machines, roti rollers and sewing machines are helping Selco Solar Light quietly script a change in the lives of micro entrepreneurs in Karnataka. <\/p>\n<p>Guruprakash Shetty, Assistant General Manager of Selco Solar Light Pvt Ltd, told BusinessLine that Selco has come out with such solar-powered solutions to help generate more than 60 livelihood options. Selco Solar, a social enterprise, is observing a \u2018livelihood month\u2019 (from December 19 to January 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laptop printers may not be directly connected to solar energy. However, solar energy is one of the main reasons petty shops in rural areas are installing laptop printers to make photocopies. Also, production of traditional earthen pots may be on the decline in many parts of the country. However, a solar-powered potter\u2019s wheel is helping revive this profession in some areas of the country. These products, along with others such as solar-powered milking machines, roti rollers and sewing machines are helping Selco Solar Light quietly script a change in the lives of micro entrepreneurs in Karnataka. Guruprakash Shetty, Assistant General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310805","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}