{"id":609709,"date":"2023-10-11T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=609709"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T05:35:30","slug":"kochi-city-corporation-wants-ernakulam-junction-railway-station-to-be-renamed-after-erstwhile-ruler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kochi-city-corporation-wants-ernakulam-junction-railway-station-to-be-renamed-after-erstwhile-ruler\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi city corporation wants Ernakulam Junction Railway station to be renamed after erstwhile ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Left-ruled Kochi city corporation has passed a resolution seeking to rename the Ernakulam Junction railway station here after King Rama Varma, the erstwhile king of Cochin.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the city corporation council, which held on Monday, passed the resolution to request the Railway Ministry to rename the station.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor M Anil Kumar told the media that it was Rama Varma XV, the then Maharaja of Cochin, in 1902 who took initiative to bring a railway line to Kochi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The erstwhile king of Cochin sold 14 golden caparisons of his family deity to raise the funds for the first railway line to Kochi from Shornur,&#8221; Kumar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left-ruled Kochi city corporation has passed a resolution seeking to rename the Ernakulam Junction railway station here after King Rama Varma, the erstwhile king of Cochin. The meeting of the city corporation council, which held on Monday, passed the resolution to request the Railway Ministry to rename the station. Mayor M Anil Kumar told the media that it was Rama Varma XV, the then Maharaja of Cochin, in 1902 who took initiative to bring a railway line to Kochi. &#8220;The erstwhile king of Cochin sold 14 golden caparisons of his family deity to raise the funds for the first [&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-609709","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\/609709","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=609709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}