{"id":398235,"date":"2021-02-01T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T03:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398235"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:21:13","slug":"all-woman-crew-in-ladakh-runs-lpg-plant-that-army-depends-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/all-woman-crew-in-ladakh-runs-lpg-plant-that-army-depends-on\/","title":{"rendered":"All-woman crew in Ladakh runs LPG plant that Army depends on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEH: Every morning, Tsering Angmo leaves her two-year-old son with neighbours and commutes 20 km through a frozen landscape from her home in Choglamsar, a settlement near Leh, to work at Ladakh\u2019s only LPG bottling plant near Leh.<\/p>\n<p>Angmo is part of a 12-member all-women crew making sure that the 50,000 Indian soldiers eyeballing the People\u2019s Liberation Army in Arctic temperatures do not have to march on empty stomachs.<\/p>\n<p>The plant, built by state-run IndianOil, is Ladakh\u2019s only source of cooking gas and a lifeline once snow snaps road connectivity with the rest of the country. About 40% of the refills produced at the plant go to the defence establishment. It is also the country\u2019s only LPG unit to be operated by women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEH: Every morning, Tsering Angmo leaves her two-year-old son with neighbours and commutes 20 km through a frozen landscape from her home in Choglamsar, a settlement near Leh, to work at Ladakh\u2019s only LPG bottling plant near Leh. Angmo is part of a 12-member all-women crew making sure that the 50,000 Indian soldiers eyeballing the People\u2019s Liberation Army in Arctic temperatures do not have to march on empty stomachs. The plant, built by state-run IndianOil, is Ladakh\u2019s only source of cooking gas and a lifeline once snow snaps road connectivity with the rest of the country. About 40% of the [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398235","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=398235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}