{"id":533195,"date":"2022-11-01T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533195"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:56:01","slug":"first-fully-solar-village-of-modhera-lights-up-the-lives-of-poor-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-fully-solar-village-of-modhera-lights-up-the-lives-of-poor-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"First fully solar village of Modhera lights up the lives of poor residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he moulds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter&#8217;s wheel. <\/p>\n<p>These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India&#8217;s Gujarat state, has doubled the amount of earthenware he makes compared to a few months ago since he no longer has to turn the wheel manually as he could not then afford high electricity bill that were up to 1,500 Indian rupees ($18.19) a month. <\/p>\n<p>Now, however, his machine moves on solar power as earlier this month Prajapati&#8217;s village of around 6,500 residents, consisting mainly of potters, tailors, farmers and shoemakers, was declared India&#8217;s first village to run entirely on solar energy all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he moulds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter&#8217;s wheel. These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India&#8217;s Gujarat state, has doubled the amount of earthenware he makes compared to a few months ago since he no longer has to turn the wheel manually as he could not then afford high electricity bill that were up to 1,500 Indian rupees ($18.19) a month. Now, however, his machine moves on solar power as earlier this month Prajapati&#8217;s village of around 6,500 residents, consisting mainly of potters, [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533195","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=533195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}