{"id":485791,"date":"2022-04-22T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485791"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:05:56","slug":"how-villagers-living-near-coal-power-plants-lost-health-water-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-villagers-living-near-coal-power-plants-lost-health-water-security\/","title":{"rendered":"How villagers living near coal power plants lost health, water security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the pallu of her saree covering her head, Shakuntala Shende made her way from the village health centre to her house in a narrow lane in Nagpur district&#8217;s Khairi village, a visit she makes several times in a year. She has patches on her hands that have turned black and itch painfully. The treatment she gets at the health centre provides temporary relief, but then the patches return. <\/p>\n<p>Shende&#8217;s village is one of many in the district affected by coal ash pollution from two thermal power plants (TPPs). The ash has polluted the region&#8217;s air, the river water and groundwater, according to government documents and an independent study. The government-owned company,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the pallu of her saree covering her head, Shakuntala Shende made her way from the village health centre to her house in a narrow lane in Nagpur district&#8217;s Khairi village, a visit she makes several times in a year. She has patches on her hands that have turned black and itch painfully. The treatment she gets at the health centre provides temporary relief, but then the patches return. Shende&#8217;s village is one of many in the district affected by coal ash pollution from two thermal power plants (TPPs). The ash has polluted the region&#8217;s air, the river water and [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485791","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=485791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}