{"id":1013883,"date":"2026-06-11T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013883"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:02:58","slug":"artificial-limbs-are-human-capital-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/artificial-limbs-are-human-capital-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial limbs are human capital infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India today speaks confidently about becoming a developed nation by 2047. We speak of digital public infrastructure, semiconductor missions, defence manufacturing, artificial intelligence, medical technology and global supply chains. Yet one of the most important questions of development remains under-discussed: How does a nation restore mobility, dignity and productivity to citizens who have lost a limb? This question is not only medical. It is economic. It is social. It is moral. It is also strategic.<\/p>\n<p>For too long, prosthetics in India have been viewed through the narrow lens of welfare or charity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India today speaks confidently about becoming a developed nation by 2047. We speak of digital public infrastructure, semiconductor missions, defence manufacturing, artificial intelligence, medical technology and global supply chains. Yet one of the most important questions of development remains under-discussed: How does a nation restore mobility, dignity and productivity to citizens who have lost a limb? This question is not only medical. It is economic. It is social. It is moral. It is also strategic. For too long, prosthetics in India have been viewed through the narrow lens of welfare or charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013884,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013883\/revisions\/1013884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}