{"id":451233,"date":"2021-11-23T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451233"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T05:01:39","slug":"indian-railways-changes-saffron-uniform-of-ramayan-express-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-changes-saffron-uniform-of-ramayan-express-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways changes saffron uniform of Ramayan Express staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN RAILWAYS on Monday changed the uniform of serving staff aboard Ramayan Express after Hindu seers objected to their saffron outfits. Hindu seers from Ujjain had called the saffron uniform an insult to the Hindu religion and threatened to block the train in Delhi on December 12 if it wasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, IRCTC, which runs the train, said, \u201cIt is to inform that the dress of service staff is completely changed in the look of professional attire of service staff. Inconvenience caused is regretted.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The uniforms have been changed to shirts and trousers and traditional headgear. The waiters will, however, wear saffron masks and gloves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN RAILWAYS on Monday changed the uniform of serving staff aboard Ramayan Express after Hindu seers objected to their saffron outfits. Hindu seers from Ujjain had called the saffron uniform an insult to the Hindu religion and threatened to block the train in Delhi on December 12 if it wasn\u2019t changed. In a statement, IRCTC, which runs the train, said, \u201cIt is to inform that the dress of service staff is completely changed in the look of professional attire of service staff. Inconvenience caused is regretted.\u201d The uniforms have been changed to shirts and trousers and traditional headgear. The waiters [&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-451233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451233","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=451233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}