{"id":150241,"date":"2018-02-21T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=150241"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:05:22","slug":"affordable-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/affordable-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 27, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the RCS scheme in Shimla to boost air travel between smaller cities by making flights far more affordable for &#8220;tier 2&#8221; and smaller towns. &#8220;I want to see people who wear hawai chappal (flip flops) in a hawai jahaz (airplane),&#8221; Mr Modi said. That was the first round of bidding under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) named as UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik), which is operational now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livemedia.press\/product\/infralive-subscription\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/read-more.gif\" alt=\"http:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/read-more.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 27, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the RCS scheme in Shimla to boost air travel between smaller cities by making flights far more affordable for &#8220;tier 2&#8221; and smaller towns. &#8220;I want to see people who wear hawai chappal (flip flops) in a hawai jahaz (airplane),&#8221; Mr Modi said. That was the first round of bidding under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) named as UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik), which is operational now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150241","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}