{"id":382066,"date":"2020-11-03T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382066"},"modified":"2020-11-03T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T07:00:20","slug":"goa-a-coal-hub-activists-politicians-oppose-rail-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/goa-a-coal-hub-activists-politicians-oppose-rail-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa, a coal hub? Activists, politicians oppose rail expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people, including some leaders of the Congress and other parties, sat on a rail track in South Goa to protest against a rail doubling work, claiming it is being done to transport coal from the state to neighbouring Karnataka. <\/p>\n<p>The Goa government, however, said the protest is &#8220;politically motivated&#8221; and unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>Several people, under the banner of &#8216;Goyant Kollso Naka&#8217; (GKN-don&#8217;t want coal in Goa), gathered at Chandor village, located 50 km from here in South Goa district, around 11 pm on Sunday and continued the protest till 5 am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of various political parties, including the opposition Congress, the Goa Forward Party (GFP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), also took part in the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people, including some leaders of the Congress and other parties, sat on a rail track in South Goa to protest against a rail doubling work, claiming it is being done to transport coal from the state to neighbouring Karnataka. The Goa government, however, said the protest is &#8220;politically motivated&#8221; and unwarranted. Several people, under the banner of &#8216;Goyant Kollso Naka&#8217; (GKN-don&#8217;t want coal in Goa), gathered at Chandor village, located 50 km from here in South Goa district, around 11 pm on Sunday and continued the protest till 5 am on Monday. Representatives of various political parties, including [&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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382066","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=382066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}