{"id":482975,"date":"2022-04-07T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T05:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482975"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T05:08:47","slug":"indian-railways-failed-to-improve-on-mobility-outcomes-despite-spending-rs-2-5-lakh-crores-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-failed-to-improve-on-mobility-outcomes-despite-spending-rs-2-5-lakh-crores-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways failed to improve on mobility outcomes despite spending Rs 2.5 lakh crores: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways has failed to improve on mobility outcomes despite investing Rs 2.5 lakh crores on track infrastructure during 2008 to 2019. An Audit Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India found 31 compliance issues of the Ministry of Railways during 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>The CAG report highlighted the failure of \u2018Mission Raftaar\u2019 which was introduced in 2016-17 with a targeted average speed of 50 kilometres per hour (kmph) for mail or express trains and 75 kmph for freight trains by 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways has failed to improve on mobility outcomes despite investing Rs 2.5 lakh crores on track infrastructure during 2008 to 2019. An Audit Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India found 31 compliance issues of the Ministry of Railways during 2019-20. The CAG report highlighted the failure of \u2018Mission Raftaar\u2019 which was introduced in 2016-17 with a targeted average speed of 50 kilometres per hour (kmph) for mail or express trains and 75 kmph for freight trains by 2021-22.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482975","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=482975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}