{"id":404117,"date":"2021-03-10T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T04:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404117"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:32:49","slug":"deadly-smoke-set-to-return-as-india-cuts-outlays-on-cooking-gas-program-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/deadly-smoke-set-to-return-as-india-cuts-outlays-on-cooking-gas-program-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly smoke set to return as India cuts outlays on cooking gas program"},"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 \u2014 a shift that risks upsetting women voters and potentially exposing millions to heavier levels of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In Allauddinnagar, a village in Uttar Pradesh, 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, which burn with a sooty flame and left her teary eyed and choking. When Modi\u2019s program made liquefied petroleum gas cylinders affordable to her some years ago, she breathed more easily.<\/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 \u2014 a shift that risks upsetting women voters and potentially exposing millions to heavier levels of pollution. In Allauddinnagar, a village in Uttar Pradesh, 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 [&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-404117","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\/404117","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=404117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}