{"id":590682,"date":"2023-07-13T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=590682"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:21:30","slug":"expensive-vande-bharat-chennai-trains-launch-indian-railways-apparently-spent-rs-2-6-crore-to-arrange-pm-modi-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/expensive-vande-bharat-chennai-trains-launch-indian-railways-apparently-spent-rs-2-6-crore-to-arrange-pm-modi-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Expensive Vande Bharat Chennai trains launch: Indian Railways apparently spent Rs 2.6 crore to arrange PM Modi events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of Vande Bharat trains has proven to be a costly affair, as revealed by responses obtained through Right to Information (RTI) applications from the Indian Railways, according to a report in Times of India. According to the data, the Southern Railway alone spent a total of Rs 2,62,60,367 to organise two launch events for Vande Bharat trains in the region. Specifically, these events included the Chennai-Coimbatore Vande Bharat on April 8 and the Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargod Vande Bharat on April 25.<br \/>\nHow this launch is a costly affair?<\/p>\n<p>As per the information provided by the Southern Railway in response to the RTI applications filed by activist Ajay Bose, the Railways incurred a total cost of Rs 1,14,42,108 for the launch event organised in Chennai, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off a Vande Bharat express train,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of Vande Bharat trains has proven to be a costly affair, as revealed by responses obtained through Right to Information (RTI) applications from the Indian Railways, according to a report in Times of India. According to the data, the Southern Railway alone spent a total of Rs 2,62,60,367 to organise two launch events for Vande Bharat trains in the region. Specifically, these events included the Chennai-Coimbatore Vande Bharat on April 8 and the Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargod Vande Bharat on April 25. How this launch is a costly affair? As per the information provided by the Southern Railway in response to [&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":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590682","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=590682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}