{"id":546605,"date":"2023-01-09T11:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T05:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=546605"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T05:38:05","slug":"indian-railways-might-no-longer-be-the-lord-of-the-rail-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-might-no-longer-be-the-lord-of-the-rail-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways might no longer be the lord of the rail in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram Bhakar, a train operator, is stationed at Duhai village in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Amid its sprawling sugarcane fields, a large rail maintenance depot with state-of-the-art facilities has sprung up. Four semi-high speed train sets, manufactured by Alstom at its factory in Savli, Gujarat, have arrived at the depot\u2019s stabling yard. \u201cI have heard two more are coming this month,\u201d says Bhakar, as he escorts this reporter into a brand-new train in which plastic wrappers have yet to be removed from the seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram Bhakar, a train operator, is stationed at Duhai village in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Amid its sprawling sugarcane fields, a large rail maintenance depot with state-of-the-art facilities has sprung up. Four semi-high speed train sets, manufactured by Alstom at its factory in Savli, Gujarat, have arrived at the depot\u2019s stabling yard. \u201cI have heard two more are coming this month,\u201d says Bhakar, as he escorts this reporter into a brand-new train in which plastic wrappers have yet to be removed from the seats.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546605","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=546605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}