{"id":521553,"date":"2022-09-13T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=521553"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T06:25:39","slug":"railways-writes-off-%e2%82%b971-cr-after-ministry-refuses-to-pay-excess-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-writes-off-%e2%82%b971-cr-after-ministry-refuses-to-pay-excess-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways &#8216;writes off&#8217; \u20b971 cr after ministry refuses to pay excess subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Railways had to write off \u20b971.86 crore it spent as excess subsidy on Kisan Rail Services last fiscal, after the Ministry of Food Processing Industries refused to bear the additional cost citing a \u20b950-crore ceiling for the initiative, documents show.<\/p>\n<p>According to official data, the Railways spent \u20b9121.86 crore as subsidy under the scheme which is more than double the amount of \u20b950 crore sanctioned in 2021-22 by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) for the pro-farmer initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The national transporter was forced to &#8220;write off&#8221; the excess expenditure of \u20b971.86 crore after the MoFPI &#8212; the nodal ministry for implementing the &#8216;Operation Greens &#8211; TOP to total&#8217; scheme under which Kisan Rails operate &#8212; deciding not to reimburse the outstanding amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railways had to write off \u20b971.86 crore it spent as excess subsidy on Kisan Rail Services last fiscal, after the Ministry of Food Processing Industries refused to bear the additional cost citing a \u20b950-crore ceiling for the initiative, documents show. According to official data, the Railways spent \u20b9121.86 crore as subsidy under the scheme which is more than double the amount of \u20b950 crore sanctioned in 2021-22 by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) for the pro-farmer initiative. The national transporter was forced to &#8220;write off&#8221; the excess expenditure of \u20b971.86 crore after the MoFPI &#8212; the nodal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521553","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}