{"id":554275,"date":"2023-02-09T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=554275"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T06:41:59","slug":"gmrt-scientists-worried-after-ministrys-approval-for-pune-nashik-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gmrt-scientists-worried-after-ministrys-approval-for-pune-nashik-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"GMRT scientists worried after ministry\u2019s approval for Pune-Nashik high-speed rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed Rs 16,000-crore Pune-Nashik high-speed rail project could jeopardise the operations of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the world\u2019s largest radio telescope located near Pune. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Railways gave \u2018in-principle\u2019 approval to the project, being executed by Maharail, on February 5. If the project is implemented, the rail route would cut through the GMRT array of 30 parabolic antennas installed in a \u2018Y\u2019 fashion across 30 km in a radio-quiet region in Pune district\u2019s Narayangaon area. <\/p>\n<p>The GMRT site is situated off the Pune-Nashik highway and was painstakingly chosen by an eminent jury of scientists, including late Govind Swarup, in the early 1980s for posing minimal man-made noise and found suitable for being favourable for long-term operations of a sensitive radio observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed Rs 16,000-crore Pune-Nashik high-speed rail project could jeopardise the operations of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the world\u2019s largest radio telescope located near Pune. The Ministry of Railways gave \u2018in-principle\u2019 approval to the project, being executed by Maharail, on February 5. If the project is implemented, the rail route would cut through the GMRT array of 30 parabolic antennas installed in a \u2018Y\u2019 fashion across 30 km in a radio-quiet region in Pune district\u2019s Narayangaon area. The GMRT site is situated off the Pune-Nashik highway and was painstakingly chosen by an eminent jury of scientists, including late [&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-554275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554275","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=554275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}