{"id":467314,"date":"2022-02-10T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T06:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=467314"},"modified":"2022-02-10T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T06:24:39","slug":"railway-infra-gets-next-to-nothing-in-union-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-infra-gets-next-to-nothing-in-union-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway infra gets next to nothing in Union Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Every year, the state looks forward to a favourable budget to bolster its railway infrastructure. But it has repeatedly been let down. This time around too, the state got a poor deal. In Kerala, the 439km long railway falling fully or partly in the state has eight projects estimated at Rs 9,489 crore at different stages &#8211; planning, approval or execution. The budget grant for Railways in Kerala is Rs 1,085 crore for the financial year 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>As per the budget, the Thiruvananthapuram-Kanniyakumari doubling project (86.56 Km) has been allotted Rs 393.50 crore. The doubling of Kuruppanthara &#8211; Chingavanam (26.54 Km) stretch has been allotted Rs 50.94 crore while Rs 100.66 crore was kept aside for various railway electrification works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Every year, the state looks forward to a favourable budget to bolster its railway infrastructure. But it has repeatedly been let down. This time around too, the state got a poor deal. In Kerala, the 439km long railway falling fully or partly in the state has eight projects estimated at Rs 9,489 crore at different stages &#8211; planning, approval or execution. The budget grant for Railways in Kerala is Rs 1,085 crore for the financial year 2022-23. As per the budget, the Thiruvananthapuram-Kanniyakumari doubling project (86.56 Km) has been allotted Rs 393.50 crore. The doubling of Kuruppanthara &#8211; Chingavanam [&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-467314","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\/467314","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=467314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}