BENGALURU: Charcoal or electric iron boxes are conventionally used by roadside ironwallahs. The Covid-19 crisis has led to many of them employing another tool \u2014 LPG-powered iron box.
\nSuch iron boxes are now a common sight at mobile and roadside shops in parts of central Bengaluru. Stall owners say they are more economical and user-friendly.
\nP Muthulakshmi has been ironing clothes for a living for nine years and the Covid-induced lockdown dealt a heavy blow to her business. \u201cWhen the lockdown began, our charcoal suppliers left Bengaluru and returned to their villages. The LPG iron box came as a saviour during those months. We could afford two square meals with the money I made,\u201d says the 45-year-old who works on Prime Street in Richmond Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BENGALURU: Charcoal or electric iron boxes are conventionally used by roadside ironwallahs. The Covid-19 crisis has led to many of them employing another tool \u2014 LPG-powered iron box. Such iron boxes are now a common sight at mobile and roadside shops in parts of central Bengaluru. Stall owners say they are more economical and user-friendly. P Muthulakshmi has been ironing clothes for a living for nine years and the Covid-induced lockdown dealt a heavy blow to her business. \u201cWhen the lockdown began, our charcoal suppliers left Bengaluru and returned to their villages. The LPG iron box came as a saviour […]<\/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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388279","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=388279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}