{"id":592204,"date":"2023-07-20T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=592204"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T06:52:22","slug":"railways-plans-a-reserve-compartment-for-senior-citizens-in-mumbai-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-plans-a-reserve-compartment-for-senior-citizens-in-mumbai-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways plans a reserve compartment for senior citizens in Mumbai local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like reserved ladies coaches, senior citizens in Mumbai may also get a reserved compartment in Mumbai local. In response to a public interest litigation filed in 2022, Indian Railways reportedly said that it is considering the reservation of one luggage compartment specifically for senior citizens in local trains.<\/p>\n<p>As per ToI, the PIL highlighted that approximately 50,000 elderly commuters travel daily on suburban trains in Mumbai, facing difficulties in finding seats, as the limited 14 seats dedicated to seniors in the second class are often occupied by younger passengers during peak hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like reserved ladies coaches, senior citizens in Mumbai may also get a reserved compartment in Mumbai local. In response to a public interest litigation filed in 2022, Indian Railways reportedly said that it is considering the reservation of one luggage compartment specifically for senior citizens in local trains. As per ToI, the PIL highlighted that approximately 50,000 elderly commuters travel daily on suburban trains in Mumbai, facing difficulties in finding seats, as the limited 14 seats dedicated to seniors in the second class are often occupied by younger passengers during peak hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-592204","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\/592204","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}