{"id":583757,"date":"2023-06-12T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=583757"},"modified":"2023-06-12T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:12:25","slug":"govt-spent-railway-safety-funds-on-leisure-items-cong-cites-cag-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-spent-railway-safety-funds-on-leisure-items-cong-cites-cag-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt spent railway safety funds on leisure items: Cong cites CAG report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Citing a 2021 CAG report, the Congress on Friday claimed the central government &#8220;misused&#8221; funds meant for railway safety on crockery, car rentals, furniture, laptops and foot massagers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is how funds specifically meant for railway safety were used. This is the CAG&#8217;s finding,&#8221; Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting the findings of the March 2021 CAG report, he alleged that the Narendra Modi government has been &#8220;misusing&#8221; Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) funds on  crockery, car rentals, foot massagers, furniture and laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a 2021 CAG report, the Congress on Friday claimed the central government &#8220;misused&#8221; funds meant for railway safety on crockery, car rentals, furniture, laptops and foot massagers. &#8220;This is how funds specifically meant for railway safety were used. This is the CAG&#8217;s finding,&#8221; Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Twitter. Quoting the findings of the March 2021 CAG report, he alleged that the Narendra Modi government has been &#8220;misusing&#8221; Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) funds on crockery, car rentals, foot massagers, furniture and laptops.<\/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-583757","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\/583757","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=583757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}