{"id":598090,"date":"2023-08-17T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598090"},"modified":"2023-08-17T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:09:21","slug":"union-cabinet-approves-rail-expansion-projects-worth-rs-32000-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/union-cabinet-approves-rail-expansion-projects-worth-rs-32000-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Union cabinet approves rail expansion projects worth Rs 32,000 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Centre\u2019s infrastructure push, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved seven proposals by the ministry of railways to expand the rail network in various parts of the country, at an estimated cost of Rs 32,512 crore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe projects covering 35 districts in nine states \u2014 Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal \u2014 will increase the existing network of railways by 2,339 km. This will provide employment of 70.6 million man-days to the people of the states,\u201d a statement by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Centre\u2019s infrastructure push, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved seven proposals by the ministry of railways to expand the rail network in various parts of the country, at an estimated cost of Rs 32,512 crore. \u201cThe projects covering 35 districts in nine states \u2014 Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal \u2014 will increase the existing network of railways by 2,339 km. This will provide employment of 70.6 million man-days to the people of the states,\u201d a statement by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) said.<\/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-598090","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\/598090","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=598090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}