{"id":342575,"date":"2020-03-19T12:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342575"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:22:30","slug":"ask-airlines-rail-to-forgo-cancellation-charges-rs-elders-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ask-airlines-rail-to-forgo-cancellation-charges-rs-elders-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask airlines, rail to forgo cancellation charges: RS elders to Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of coronavirus pandemic figured in the Rajya Sabha on Monday with some elders suggesting following preventive measures to fight the disease and urging the Government to instruct airlines and the Railways not to levy cancellation charges on tickets due to travel restrictions.  Adjournment of the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament was also mooted to prevent large gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Raising the matter of cancellation charges, Elamaram Kareem(CPM) said several States have closed educational institutions and other places to check the spread of coronavirus.  Besides, public gatherings have been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>He said a large number of people have changed their travel plans and forced to cancel their air and train tickets.  In this backdrop, Kareem urged the Government to intervene and ask airlines and Indian railways to forgo cancellation charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of coronavirus pandemic figured in the Rajya Sabha on Monday with some elders suggesting following preventive measures to fight the disease and urging the Government to instruct airlines and the Railways not to levy cancellation charges on tickets due to travel restrictions. Adjournment of the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament was also mooted to prevent large gathering. Raising the matter of cancellation charges, Elamaram Kareem(CPM) said several States have closed educational institutions and other places to check the spread of coronavirus. Besides, public gatherings have been cancelled. He said a large number of people have changed their travel [&hellip;]<\/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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342575","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=342575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}