{"id":499402,"date":"2022-06-20T09:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499402"},"modified":"2022-06-20T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:37:17","slug":"railways-cancels-369-trains-in-parts-of-india-as-agnipath-protests-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-cancels-369-trains-in-parts-of-india-as-agnipath-protests-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways cancels 369 trains in parts of India as Agnipath protests continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Railways cancelled 369 trains on Saturday due to the agitation against the Centre&#8217;s recently announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of soldiers in the armed forces, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>These include 210 mail\/express and 159 local passenger trains.<\/p>\n<p>The Railways has also partially cancelled two mail\/express trains, thus the total number of trains affected during the day is 371, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre&#8217;s announcement of the Agnipath scheme &#8212; which proposes to recruit soldiers for four years and retire 75 per cent of them without pension and other social security benefits after the end of their term &#8212; has been met with violent protests by youths in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railways cancelled 369 trains on Saturday due to the agitation against the Centre&#8217;s recently announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of soldiers in the armed forces, officials said. These include 210 mail\/express and 159 local passenger trains. The Railways has also partially cancelled two mail\/express trains, thus the total number of trains affected during the day is 371, the officials said. The Centre&#8217;s announcement of the Agnipath scheme &#8212; which proposes to recruit soldiers for four years and retire 75 per cent of them without pension and other social security benefits after the end of their term &#8212; has been [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499402","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=499402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}