{"id":511586,"date":"2022-08-04T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=511586"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T05:11:18","slug":"solar-power-opens-the-door-to-banking-for-rural-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-opens-the-door-to-banking-for-rural-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power opens the door to banking for rural Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the bank in his home village in western India used to be a slow, frustrating process for Kiran Patil, as frequent power cuts &#8211; sometimes lasting for days &#8211; turned what should have been a quick errand into a lengthy ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old farmer often had to wait for hours in line at RBL Bank NSE 0.88 %, his local branch in the village of Aitawade Budruk, or abandon his transaction and return the next day, wasting time he should have been spending cultivating his crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the bank in his home village in western India used to be a slow, frustrating process for Kiran Patil, as frequent power cuts &#8211; sometimes lasting for days &#8211; turned what should have been a quick errand into a lengthy ordeal. The 59-year-old farmer often had to wait for hours in line at RBL Bank NSE 0.88 %, his local branch in the village of Aitawade Budruk, or abandon his transaction and return the next day, wasting time he should have been spending cultivating his crops.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511586","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=511586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}