{"id":433995,"date":"2021-09-03T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433995"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:41:58","slug":"sc-family-denied-power-connection-as-caste-bias-plays-out-in-tiruppur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-family-denied-power-connection-as-caste-bias-plays-out-in-tiruppur\/","title":{"rendered":"SC family denied power connection as caste bias plays out in Tiruppur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUPPUR: A family belonging to Scheduled Caste in Tiruppur city has alleged that members of dominant community opposed their presence in the neighbourhood and were blocking power connection to their house for over two years.  Further, the family charged officials from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) of colluding with the dominant community. Weary of using generators and emergency lights, the family has shifted to a rented house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUPPUR: A family belonging to Scheduled Caste in Tiruppur city has alleged that members of dominant community opposed their presence in the neighbourhood and were blocking power connection to their house for over two years. Further, the family charged officials from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) of colluding with the dominant community. Weary of using generators and emergency lights, the family has shifted to a rented house.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433995","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=433995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}