{"id":488637,"date":"2022-05-02T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488637"},"modified":"2022-05-02T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:47:33","slug":"chidambaram-takes-swipe-at-govt-cancelling-trains-to-run-coal-rakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chidambaram-takes-swipe-at-govt-cancelling-trains-to-run-coal-rakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chidambaram takes swipe at Govt cancelling trains to run coal rakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday took a swipe at the Centre over the issue of widespread power outages, saying the Government has found the &#8220;perfect solution&#8221; to it which is to cancel passenger trains and run coal rakes.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Congress leader also said the Ministries of coal, railway and power are desperately inventing excuses to hide their &#8220;monumental incompetence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Various states continued to reel under power crisis with soaring mercury pushing demand higher, as opposition parties blamed the Centre for coal shortage at thermal plants. <\/p>\n<p>Chidambaram in a tweet said the ministries of coal, railway and power are desperately inventing excuses to hide their &#8220;monumental incompetence&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday took a swipe at the Centre over the issue of widespread power outages, saying the Government has found the &#8220;perfect solution&#8221; to it which is to cancel passenger trains and run coal rakes. The senior Congress leader also said the Ministries of coal, railway and power are desperately inventing excuses to hide their &#8220;monumental incompetence&#8221;. Various states continued to reel under power crisis with soaring mercury pushing demand higher, as opposition parties blamed the Centre for coal shortage at thermal plants. Chidambaram in a tweet said the ministries of coal, railway and power [&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":[214,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488637","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=488637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}