{"id":493894,"date":"2022-05-27T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493894"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:08:29","slug":"as-heat-cuts-power-in-indias-coal-capital-locals-seek-fair-energy-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-heat-cuts-power-in-indias-coal-capital-locals-seek-fair-energy-share\/","title":{"rendered":"As heat cuts power in India&#8217;s &#8216;coal capital&#8217;, locals seek fair energy share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his wedding preparations, Vijay Rajak had a bathroom added to his house so that his wife wouldn&#8217;t have to walk miles to a lake like other women from his village in the east Indian coal state of Jharkhand.<\/p>\n<p>He connected the bathroom tap to a storage tank powered by an electric water pump, but his effort was scuppered by frequent power outages in his village, which have also hit other parts of India amid a heatwave-driven power crisis over the past month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his wedding preparations, Vijay Rajak had a bathroom added to his house so that his wife wouldn&#8217;t have to walk miles to a lake like other women from his village in the east Indian coal state of Jharkhand. He connected the bathroom tap to a storage tank powered by an electric water pump, but his effort was scuppered by frequent power outages in his village, which have also hit other parts of India amid a heatwave-driven power crisis over the past month.<\/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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493894","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=493894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}