{"id":383857,"date":"2020-11-12T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383857"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:53:45","slug":"double-tracking-work-in-goa-misconstrued-as-part-of-coal-corridor-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/double-tracking-work-in-goa-misconstrued-as-part-of-coal-corridor-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Double tracking work in Goa \u2018misconstrued\u2019 as part of coal corridor: Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After double tracking work in Goa\u2019s Chandor was stalled due to citizen protests, the South Western Railways (SWR) has said that civic society had \u201cmisconstrued\u201d the tracks as being coal tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The SWR is double tracking a 342-km \u201ccritical\u201d railway link between Karnataka\u2019s Hospet and Goa\u2019s Vasco. While only the last 10-km stretch in Karnataka is left to be completed, and is expected to be completed by March 2021, Railways are finding it tough to work on the 90-km stretch in Goa.<\/p>\n<p>Railways state they are \u201cnot acquiring any new land\u201d and are only improving connectivity through the Western Ghats, saying that trains are using only \u201c1\/10th of the actual capacity\u201d and are unable to develop \u201camenities including new stations and better passenger shelters\u201d. \u2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After double tracking work in Goa\u2019s Chandor was stalled due to citizen protests, the South Western Railways (SWR) has said that civic society had \u201cmisconstrued\u201d the tracks as being coal tracks. The SWR is double tracking a 342-km \u201ccritical\u201d railway link between Karnataka\u2019s Hospet and Goa\u2019s Vasco. While only the last 10-km stretch in Karnataka is left to be completed, and is expected to be completed by March 2021, Railways are finding it tough to work on the 90-km stretch in Goa. Railways state they are \u201cnot acquiring any new land\u201d and are only improving connectivity through the Western Ghats, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383857","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=383857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}