{"id":39447,"date":"2021-12-03T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/03\/indias-pencil-village-counts-the-cost-of-covid-school-closures"},"modified":"2021-12-03T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T09:30:37","slug":"indias-pencil-village-counts-the-cost-of-covid-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39447","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s \u2018pencil village\u2019 counts the cost of Covid school closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukhoo village in Kashmir supplies 90% of wood used in the country\u2019s pencils, but the industry, a major employer in the area, has seen a dramatic drop in demand<\/p>\n<p>School closures in India during the pandemic have left their mark on more than the children who have seen delays to their learning. In one Kashmiri village the impact has been catastrophic on employment.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up a pencil anywhere across India and it is likely to come from the poplar trees of Ukhoo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/03\/indias-pencil-village-counts-the-cost-of-covid-school-closures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukhoo village in Kashmir supplies 90% of wood used in the country\u2019s pencils, but the industry, a major employer in the area, has seen a dramatic drop in demandSchool closures in India during the pandemic have left their mark on more than the children w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1066,847,59,62,1175,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-employment","category-global-development","category-india","category-manufacturing-sector","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39448,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions\/39448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}