{"id":570158,"date":"2023-04-18T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570158"},"modified":"2023-04-18T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:21:22","slug":"encouraging-trend-for-public-transport-in-india-pm-modi-on-kolkata-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/encouraging-trend-for-public-transport-in-india-pm-modi-on-kolkata-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging trend for public transport in India: PM Modi on Kolkata metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed happiness over the trial run of the Kolkata Metro under the Hooghly River.<\/p>\n<p>Kolkata Metro&#8217;s first rake arrived at the Howrah Maidan and it was operated through a tunnel under the river Hooghly on a trial basis, officials informed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said, &#8220;Train travels underwater! Trial run of train through another engineering marvel; metro rail tunnel and station under Hooghly river.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In response to the tweet by Railway Minister Vaishnaw, the Prime Minister tweeted: &#8220;Great news for Kolkata and an encouraging trend for public transport in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed happiness over the trial run of the Kolkata Metro under the Hooghly River. Kolkata Metro&#8217;s first rake arrived at the Howrah Maidan and it was operated through a tunnel under the river Hooghly on a trial basis, officials informed on Wednesday. Taking to Twitter, Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said, &#8220;Train travels underwater! Trial run of train through another engineering marvel; metro rail tunnel and station under Hooghly river.&#8221; In response to the tweet by Railway Minister Vaishnaw, the Prime Minister tweeted: &#8220;Great news for Kolkata and an encouraging trend for public [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570158","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=570158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}