{"id":490019,"date":"2022-05-07T10:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490019"},"modified":"2022-05-07T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T04:57:05","slug":"niti-aayog-debunks-k-rail-claim-on-total-project-cost-of-silverline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/niti-aayog-debunks-k-rail-claim-on-total-project-cost-of-silverline\/","title":{"rendered":"NITI Aayog debunks K-Rail claim on total project cost of SilverLine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as K-Rail claims that NITI Aayog hasn\u2019t made any final calculation on total project cost for the SilverLine semi-high-speed rail project,  NITI Aayog data retracts K-Rail claims. An RTI reply by NITI Aayog clearly states that as per the agency\u2019s assessment, the project cost (as per 2020 March estimate) would come to around Rs 1.26 lakh crore, as against DPR estimate of Rs 63,940 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Refuting the statement by Railway expert Alok Kumar Verma during the parallel debate on SilverLine that the NITI Aayog calculated the project cost as Rs 1.3 lakh crore, the KRDCL issued an official statement on Wednesday, stating that the agency has made no such calculation. However, an RTI reply issued by NITI Aayog to M T Thomas, of Peruva, in November 2020 has gone into details of the cost factor. The agency assessed the total project cost \u2013 as per March 2020 prices \u2013 would be Rs 1,00,352 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as K-Rail claims that NITI Aayog hasn\u2019t made any final calculation on total project cost for the SilverLine semi-high-speed rail project, NITI Aayog data retracts K-Rail claims. An RTI reply by NITI Aayog clearly states that as per the agency\u2019s assessment, the project cost (as per 2020 March estimate) would come to around Rs 1.26 lakh crore, as against DPR estimate of Rs 63,940 crore. Refuting the statement by Railway expert Alok Kumar Verma during the parallel debate on SilverLine that the NITI Aayog calculated the project cost as Rs 1.3 lakh crore, the KRDCL issued an official [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490019","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=490019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}