{"id":471803,"date":"2022-02-28T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=471803"},"modified":"2022-02-28T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:45:22","slug":"k-rail-will-take-127-years-to-complete-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/k-rail-will-take-127-years-to-complete-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Rail will take 127 years to complete: Economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted economist K P Kannan while taking part in a discussion on the controversial K-Rail &#8211; Silverline, has come out with mind-boggling figures. He said if there is going to be a time and cost overrun and if the time taken to build Kochi Metro is an indicator, it will take a staggering 127 years and if the time taken to build Delhi Metro is taken, then it would take 37 years to finish K-Rail project. <\/p>\n<p>If completed the pet project of Vijayan will see a 529.45 km corridor connecting Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod and a high-speed train will run this distance in around four hours and it will cost Rs 63,940 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted economist K P Kannan while taking part in a discussion on the controversial K-Rail &#8211; Silverline, has come out with mind-boggling figures. He said if there is going to be a time and cost overrun and if the time taken to build Kochi Metro is an indicator, it will take a staggering 127 years and if the time taken to build Delhi Metro is taken, then it would take 37 years to finish K-Rail project. If completed the pet project of Vijayan will see a 529.45 km corridor connecting Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod and a high-speed train will run this [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471803","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=471803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}