{"id":605126,"date":"2023-09-21T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T06:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=605126"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T07:01:14","slug":"railways-increase-ex-gratia-relief-in-train-accidents-by-10-times-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-increase-ex-gratia-relief-in-train-accidents-by-10-times-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways increase ex-gratia relief in train accidents by 10 times: Report"},"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. The ex-gratia relief was last revised in 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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;,&#8221; 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 &#8220;to the road users who met with an accident due to railway&#8217;s prima facie liability at manned level crossing gate accident&#8221; 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. &#8220;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;,&#8221; according to a circular dated September 18, which was accessed by PTI. It added that ex-gratia relief has also been enhanced &#8220;to the road users who met with an accident due to railway&#8217;s prima facie liability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605126","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}