{"id":509689,"date":"2022-07-28T10:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T05:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509689"},"modified":"2022-07-28T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:46:48","slug":"rlys-to-restore-concessions-on-fares-for-sr-citizens-with-a-tweak-after-pmo-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rlys-to-restore-concessions-on-fares-for-sr-citizens-with-a-tweak-after-pmo-intervenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rlys to restore concessions on fares for sr citizens with a tweak after PMO intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing severe criticism from the masses and the Opposition after Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw asserted in the Parliament against restoring concessions on fares for senior citizens and some other categories, the PMO has intervened in the matter following which the Indian Railways is on course to restore them but with a severe tweak. <\/p>\n<p>The restoration of senior citizen concessions is being planned only for the general and sleeper classes as of now. The age criteria too is being changed. Only those above 70 years, as against the earlier 58 for women and 60 for men, will be eligible for the concessional fare, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing severe criticism from the masses and the Opposition after Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw asserted in the Parliament against restoring concessions on fares for senior citizens and some other categories, the PMO has intervened in the matter following which the Indian Railways is on course to restore them but with a severe tweak. The restoration of senior citizen concessions is being planned only for the general and sleeper classes as of now. The age criteria too is being changed. Only those above 70 years, as against the earlier 58 for women and 60 for men, will be eligible for the [&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":[130,263,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509689","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=509689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}