{"id":404075,"date":"2021-03-10T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404075"},"modified":"2021-03-10T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T04:46:38","slug":"millions-of-women-face-health-risks-from-lpg-subsidy-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/millions-of-women-face-health-risks-from-lpg-subsidy-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of women face health risks from LPG subsidy cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government offered Indian women a chance to dramatically improve their lives with cooking fuel subsidies in what became one of his administration\u2019s most celebrated campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Now, hamstrung by a widening fiscal deficit, New Delhi has been slowly reducing the size of those handouts &#8212; a shift that risks upsetting women voters and potentially exposing millions to heavier levels of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In Allauddinnagar, a village in India\u2019s Uttar Pradesh state, Laxmi Kishore, a 35-year-old homemaker, is worried. Cooking food for her family used to be an ordeal that involved using cheap fuels like cow dung, crops and wood,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government offered Indian women a chance to dramatically improve their lives with cooking fuel subsidies in what became one of his administration\u2019s most celebrated campaigns. Now, hamstrung by a widening fiscal deficit, New Delhi has been slowly reducing the size of those handouts &#8212; a shift that risks upsetting women voters and potentially exposing millions to heavier levels of pollution. In Allauddinnagar, a village in India\u2019s Uttar Pradesh state, Laxmi Kishore, a 35-year-old homemaker, is worried. Cooking food for her family used to be an ordeal that involved using cheap fuels like cow [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404075","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=404075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}