{"id":496768,"date":"2022-06-07T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T04:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=496768"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T05:46:28","slug":"commissioner-of-railway-safety-for-some-works-rlys-cuts-a-layer-of-official-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/commissioner-of-railway-safety-for-some-works-rlys-cuts-a-layer-of-official-go-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner of Railway Safety: For some works, Rlys cuts a layer of official go-ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) and railway electrification works will no longer require clearance from the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), according to a latest decision of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Curbing the scope of powers of CRS significantly, the government has also taken foot-over bridges, minor bridges and manned level crossings off the list of works that would require CRS approval for construction, rebuilding, strengthening, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The logic behind the move \u2014 in the making for the last few years now \u2014 is that the internal, established apparatus within Railways is good enough to assess any safety implications these works might have, and as such Railways is competent to take a call on these matters without involving CRS, which is under the Ministry of Civil Aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) and railway electrification works will no longer require clearance from the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), according to a latest decision of the government. Curbing the scope of powers of CRS significantly, the government has also taken foot-over bridges, minor bridges and manned level crossings off the list of works that would require CRS approval for construction, rebuilding, strengthening, etc. The logic behind the move \u2014 in the making for the last few years now \u2014 is that the internal, established apparatus within Railways is good enough to assess any safety implications these works might [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496768","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=496768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}