{"id":582386,"date":"2023-06-06T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=582386"},"modified":"2023-06-06T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T06:24:04","slug":"railways-spent-over-rs-1-lakh-cr-on-safety-between-2017-2018-and-2021-22-official-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-spent-over-rs-1-lakh-cr-on-safety-between-2017-2018-and-2021-22-official-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways spent over Rs 1 lakh cr on safety between 2017-2018 and 2021-22: Official document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The railways has spent more than Rs 1 lakh crore on safety measures between 2017-2018 and 2021-22 with a steady growth in expenditure on track renewal, according to an official document. Government sources also indicated that the railways will soon reply to a Comptroller and Auditor General of India&#8217;s report that was cited by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to attack the Centre over the Friday triple-train accident in Odisha&#8217;s Balasore that claimed 275 lives and injured more than 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Kharge on Monday had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that &#8220;all the empty safety claims&#8221; of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have been &#8220;exposed&#8221;. He also said there is serious concern among people about the deterioration in safety of railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The railways has spent more than Rs 1 lakh crore on safety measures between 2017-2018 and 2021-22 with a steady growth in expenditure on track renewal, according to an official document. Government sources also indicated that the railways will soon reply to a Comptroller and Auditor General of India&#8217;s report that was cited by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to attack the Centre over the Friday triple-train accident in Odisha&#8217;s Balasore that claimed 275 lives and injured more than 1,000 people. Kharge on Monday had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that &#8220;all the empty safety claims&#8221; of Railway Minister [&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-582386","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\/582386","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=582386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}