{"id":465870,"date":"2022-02-03T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465870"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T04:38:21","slug":"vande-bharat-trains-can-be-an-alternative-shashi-tharoor-wants-kerala-govt-to-rethink-on-silverline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vande-bharat-trains-can-be-an-alternative-shashi-tharoor-wants-kerala-govt-to-rethink-on-silverline\/","title":{"rendered":"Vande Bharat trains can be an alternative: Shashi Tharoor wants Kerala govt to rethink on SilverLine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who had earlier expressed support for the CPI(M)-led Kerala government\u2019s proposed semi-high-speed rail corridor, SilverLine, on Wednesday said it should be looked into if the new Vande Bharat trains announced in the Union budget would be a cost-effective and energy-efficient alternative to the rail corridor project.<\/p>\n<p>In his Facebook post, Tharoor said the announcement of 400 new Vande Bharat trains with a speed of 180 km per hour is significant for Kerala. \u201cBoth the central and state governments should look into whether the Vande Bharat trains would be a cost-effective and energy-efficient alternative to the rail corridor, K-Rail. If Kerala gets Vande Bharat trains, it may serve the need for fast transport facilities from the southern end of the state to the northern end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who had earlier expressed support for the CPI(M)-led Kerala government\u2019s proposed semi-high-speed rail corridor, SilverLine, on Wednesday said it should be looked into if the new Vande Bharat trains announced in the Union budget would be a cost-effective and energy-efficient alternative to the rail corridor project. In his Facebook post, Tharoor said the announcement of 400 new Vande Bharat trains with a speed of 180 km per hour is significant for Kerala. \u201cBoth the central and state governments should look into whether the Vande Bharat trains would be a cost-effective and energy-efficient alternative to the rail [&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-465870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465870","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=465870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}