{"id":581957,"date":"2023-06-05T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=581957"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:55:34","slug":"as-government-pushes-for-railway-upgrade-odisha-rail-crash-raises-safety-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-government-pushes-for-railway-upgrade-odisha-rail-crash-raises-safety-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"As government pushes for railway upgrade, Odisha rail crash raises safety questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to inaugurate Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat, an electrical semi-high-speed train equipped with a safety feature &#8211; another step in the modernization of an antiquated railway that is the lifeline of the world&#8217;s most populous nation on Saturday, instead he travelled to Odisha to deal with one of the country&#8217;s worst train disasters that left over 280 dead and hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<p>The massive derailment on Friday night involving two passenger trains is a stark reminder of safety issues that continue to challenge the vast railway system that transports nearly 22 million passengers each day.<\/p>\n<p>India is a country of 1.42 billion people, has one of the world&#8217;s most extensive and complicated railways built during the British colonial era:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to inaugurate Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat, an electrical semi-high-speed train equipped with a safety feature &#8211; another step in the modernization of an antiquated railway that is the lifeline of the world&#8217;s most populous nation on Saturday, instead he travelled to Odisha to deal with one of the country&#8217;s worst train disasters that left over 280 dead and hundreds injured. The massive derailment on Friday night involving two passenger trains is a stark reminder of safety issues that continue to challenge the vast railway system that transports nearly 22 million passengers each day. India is [&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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581957","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\/581957","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=581957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}