{"id":643710,"date":"2025-08-20T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643710"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:05:07","slug":"left-in-the-dark-western-ups-migrant-workers-lose-light-faith-with-unmaintained-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/left-in-the-dark-western-ups-migrant-workers-lose-light-faith-with-unmaintained-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Left in the dark: Western UP&#8217;s migrant workers lose light, faith with unmaintained solar panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aligarh\/Bulandshahr: In a dusty brick kiln colony on the outskirts of Aligarh, 32-year-old migrant worker Kamal Singh stands beside a lifeless solar panel mounted on his hut. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeh toh roshni ka sahara tha. Par ab pehle jaise nahi chalta. (This was our source of light. But now it doesn&#8217;t work like before,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Once a symbol of self-reliance that lit up his hut and powered a fan through scorching summers, the panel is now coated in grime, barely functioning &#8212; a casualty of lack of maintenance, guidance and rising air pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aligarh\/Bulandshahr: In a dusty brick kiln colony on the outskirts of Aligarh, 32-year-old migrant worker Kamal Singh stands beside a lifeless solar panel mounted on his hut. &#8220;Yeh toh roshni ka sahara tha. Par ab pehle jaise nahi chalta. (This was our source of light. But now it doesn&#8217;t work like before,&#8221; he said. Once a symbol of self-reliance that lit up his hut and powered a fan through scorching summers, the panel is now coated in grime, barely functioning &#8212; a casualty of lack of maintenance, guidance and rising air pollution.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643710","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\/643710","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=643710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}