{"id":604970,"date":"2023-09-21T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604970"},"modified":"2023-09-21T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T05:20:05","slug":"railways-increases-ex-gratia-relief-in-train-accidents-by-10-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-increases-ex-gratia-relief-in-train-accidents-by-10-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways increases ex gratia relief in train accidents by 10 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Board has increased by 10 times the ex gratia payments made in case of death or injury to anyone in train accidents. <\/p>\n<p>The ex-gratia relief was last revised in 2012 and 2013. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It has now been decided to revise the amount of ex-gratia relief to be paid to the dependents of dead and injured passengers involved in train accidents and untoward incidents&#8230;,&#8217; according to a circular dated September 18, which was accessed by PTI. <\/p>\n<p>It added that ex-gratia relief has also been enhanced &#8216;to the road users who met with an accident due to railway&#8217;s prima facie liability at manned level crossing gate accident&#8217; and it will be applicable from September 18, i.e., from the date of the release of the circular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Board has increased by 10 times the ex gratia payments made in case of death or injury to anyone in train accidents. The ex-gratia relief was last revised in 2012 and 2013. &#8216;It has now been decided to revise the amount of ex-gratia relief to be paid to the dependents of dead and injured passengers involved in train accidents and untoward incidents&#8230;,&#8217; according to a circular dated September 18, which was accessed by PTI. It added that ex-gratia relief has also been enhanced &#8216;to the road users who met with an accident due to railway&#8217;s prima facie liability [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604970","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=604970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}