{"id":655550,"date":"2025-12-06T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655550"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:34:04","slug":"in-indias-mining-belt-women-spark-hope-with-solar-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-indias-mining-belt-women-spark-hope-with-solar-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"In India&#8217;s mining belt, women spark hope with solar lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santosh Devi is proud to have brought light &#8212; and hope &#8212; to her hamlet in western India, taking up solar engineering through a programme for women like her whose husbands suffer chronic disease from mining work. <\/p>\n<p>Her husband is bedridden with silicosis, a respiratory illness caused by inhaling fine silica dust which is common across some 33,000 mines in Rajasthan state, where the couple and their four children live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santosh Devi is proud to have brought light &#8212; and hope &#8212; to her hamlet in western India, taking up solar engineering through a programme for women like her whose husbands suffer chronic disease from mining work. Her husband is bedridden with silicosis, a respiratory illness caused by inhaling fine silica dust which is common across some 33,000 mines in Rajasthan state, where the couple and their four children live.<\/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-655550","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\/655550","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=655550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}