{"id":562696,"date":"2023-03-15T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=562696"},"modified":"2023-03-15T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T06:52:56","slug":"parl-panel-for-resumption-of-rail-fare-subsidy-to-sr-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/parl-panel-for-resumption-of-rail-fare-subsidy-to-sr-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Parl panel for resumption of Rail fare subsidy to sr citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways has recommended the resumption of the fare concession offered to senior citizens by the Railways before the coronavirus pandemic hit the nation. The Indian Railways used to offer a 40 per cent discount in fares to men aged 60 years or above and for women it was a 50 per cent discount starting from 58 years.<\/p>\n<p>The same committee also raised concern over the pace of production of Vande Bharat trains and said that in 2022-23, only eight rakes have been manufactured till now against the target of 35 for the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways has recommended the resumption of the fare concession offered to senior citizens by the Railways before the coronavirus pandemic hit the nation. The Indian Railways used to offer a 40 per cent discount in fares to men aged 60 years or above and for women it was a 50 per cent discount starting from 58 years. The same committee also raised concern over the pace of production of Vande Bharat trains and said that in 2022-23, only eight rakes have been manufactured till now against the target of 35 for the year.<\/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-562696","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\/562696","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=562696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}