{"id":483381,"date":"2022-04-08T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=483381"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:11:00","slug":"55-kmph-benchmark-to-classify-trains-as-superfast-quite-low-says-cag-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/55-kmph-benchmark-to-classify-trains-as-superfast-quite-low-says-cag-report\/","title":{"rendered":"55-kmph benchmark to classify trains as &#8216;superfast&#8217; quite &#8216;low&#8217;, says CAG report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 55-kmph benchmark is quite &#8220;low&#8221; for classifying trains as &#8220;superfast&#8221;, the CAG has said while highlighting that many such trains run below the minimum speed. In May 2007, the Indian Railway decided that if the average speed of a train, in both up and down directions, is a minimum of 55 kmph on broad gauge and 45 kmph on metre gauge, it would be treated as a &#8216;superfast&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In November last year, the Railways had stated the extant policy for categorisation of services into &#8216;superfast&#8217; stipulates that such trains should have an average end-to-end speed of above 55 kmph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 55-kmph benchmark is quite &#8220;low&#8221; for classifying trains as &#8220;superfast&#8221;, the CAG has said while highlighting that many such trains run below the minimum speed. In May 2007, the Indian Railway decided that if the average speed of a train, in both up and down directions, is a minimum of 55 kmph on broad gauge and 45 kmph on metre gauge, it would be treated as a &#8216;superfast&#8217;. In November last year, the Railways had stated the extant policy for categorisation of services into &#8216;superfast&#8217; stipulates that such trains should have an average end-to-end speed of above 55 kmph.<\/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-483381","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\/483381","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=483381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}