{"id":348370,"date":"2020-04-27T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=348370"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:53:00","slug":"unsung-mining-heroes-brave-odds-to-produce-coal-keep-power-plants-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/unsung-mining-heroes-brave-odds-to-produce-coal-keep-power-plants-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsung mining heroes brave odds to produce coal, keep power plants running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Undeterred by the fear of death, 57-year-old Asif Khan has kept his nose to the grindstone to dig out coal so that the country&#8217;s power plants can keep running at a time when people have been forced to stay indoors due to the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>With the country confronted with an unprecedented situation, Khan, who works in the Kamptee open cast mine of Coal India arm WCL, said it was time to serve the nation &#8220;the way a soldier fearlessly keeps his life at stake to guard his country against the enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khan considers the COVID-19 crisis as a &#8220;once in a lifetime&#8221; opportunity to serve the country by reporting to work amid all the risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Undeterred by the fear of death, 57-year-old Asif Khan has kept his nose to the grindstone to dig out coal so that the country&#8217;s power plants can keep running at a time when people have been forced to stay indoors due to the COVID-19 crisis. With the country confronted with an unprecedented situation, Khan, who works in the Kamptee open cast mine of Coal India arm WCL, said it was time to serve the nation &#8220;the way a soldier fearlessly keeps his life at stake to guard his country against the enemies.&#8221; Khan considers the COVID-19 crisis as [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348370","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=348370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}