{"id":478534,"date":"2022-03-25T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478534"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:15:29","slug":"mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-a-vanity-project-of-govt-derek-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-a-vanity-project-of-govt-derek-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train a vanity project of govt: Derek O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O&#8217;Brien on Thursday termed the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train line a &#8220;vanity project&#8221; of the Centre and accused the government of not addressing the real transportation needs of the common people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a discussion on the working of the Ministry of Railways in the Upper House, O&#8217;Brien also sought transparency in the matter regarding the private trains, Tejas, while also criticising the government for lack of &#8220;big ideas&#8221; to further enhance the national transporter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your outlook on the railways is different from the Trinamool Congress and many other parties&#8230; For us, the railways constitutes the infrastructure for the fundamental right of every Indian citizen to travel from point A to point B. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O&#8217;Brien on Thursday termed the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train line a &#8220;vanity project&#8221; of the Centre and accused the government of not addressing the real transportation needs of the common people. Speaking at a discussion on the working of the Ministry of Railways in the Upper House, O&#8217;Brien also sought transparency in the matter regarding the private trains, Tejas, while also criticising the government for lack of &#8220;big ideas&#8221; to further enhance the national transporter. &#8220;Your outlook on the railways is different from the Trinamool Congress and many other parties&#8230; For us, the railways constitutes [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478534","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=478534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}