{"id":438523,"date":"2021-09-27T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438523"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:53:52","slug":"exorbitant-fare-on-nilgiri-mountain-railway-draws-flak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/exorbitant-fare-on-nilgiri-mountain-railway-draws-flak\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exorbitant\u2019 fare on Nilgiri Mountain Railway draws flak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COONOOR: The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a UNESCO-declared world heritage site, has come under criticism for the &#8216;exorbitant fare&#8217; fixed for travel in its special train scheduled to run on Gandhi Jayanthi (October 2) for commemorating the 75th anniversary of India&#8217;s Independence.<\/p>\n<p>R Subramaniam, chairman of Nilgiris District Federation of Consumers\u2019 Organisations, told TNIE, \u201cThe NMR has announced to run a fully-reserved \u2018Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav\u2019 special train on Gandhi Jayanthi Day to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of India\u2019s Independence. But, its fare is so high that only foreigners and wealthy tourists can travel by that train. Independent India\u2019s common citizens cannot afford to celebrate this \u2018Mahotsav\u2019, and the Nilgiri residents will only be mute spectators. Such a scenario will only defeat the idea of celebrating the Independence anniversary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COONOOR: The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a UNESCO-declared world heritage site, has come under criticism for the &#8216;exorbitant fare&#8217; fixed for travel in its special train scheduled to run on Gandhi Jayanthi (October 2) for commemorating the 75th anniversary of India&#8217;s Independence. R Subramaniam, chairman of Nilgiris District Federation of Consumers\u2019 Organisations, told TNIE, \u201cThe NMR has announced to run a fully-reserved \u2018Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav\u2019 special train on Gandhi Jayanthi Day to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of India\u2019s Independence. But, its fare is so high that only foreigners and wealthy tourists can travel by that train. Independent India\u2019s common citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438523","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}