{"id":74169,"date":"2025-09-11T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/11\/unpaid-wages-searing-heat-long-hours-why-workers-are-quitting-the-worlds-largest-renewable-energy-park"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:00:23","slug":"unpaid-wages-searing-heat-long-hours-why-workers-are-quitting-the-worlds-largest-renewable-energy-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74169","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unpaid wages, searing heat, long hours\u2019: why workers are quitting the world\u2019s largest renewable energy park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vast migrant labour force is helping India meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, drawn by promises of good wages and perks. But many say they are forced to \u2018escape\u2019 without pay<\/p>\n<p>A month into his new job at the world\u2019s largest renewable energy park in Gujarat\u2019s Rann of Kutch, Anawar Alam was planning his escape. Hired along with 17 others who had travelled with him to work on the construction of a solar project, Alam had hoped that the promised pay and perks would support his family back home on the farm in Bihar. But within two weeks he was having second thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing really prepared us for where we would be working or the fact that it was so far from the nearest village. The work was strenuous, the shifts were 12 hours, and we were living in makeshift tents,\u201d says Alam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/11\/unpaid-wages-searing-heat-long-hours-why-workers-are-quitting-the-worlds-largest-renewable-energy-park\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast migrant labour force is helping India meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, drawn by promises of good wages and perks. But many say they are forced to \u2018escape\u2019 without payA month into his new job at the world\u2019s largest renewable energy park&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4955,"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":[493,59,62,655,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-global-development","category-india","category-solar-power","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74169","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\/4955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74170,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74169\/revisions\/74170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}