{"id":613473,"date":"2023-10-30T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=613473"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:03:38","slug":"namma-metro-is-an-emotion-why-change-its-name-ask-bengalureans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/namma-metro-is-an-emotion-why-change-its-name-ask-bengalureans\/","title":{"rendered":"Namma Metro is an emotion, why change its name, ask Bengalureans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The proposal to rename the Namma Metro rail network after 12th century social reformer Basaveshwara has triggered sharp reactions from Bengalureans: A majority has urged the government to toss out the renaming idea and instead focus on expediting infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n<p>The prefix of &#8216;Namma&#8217; is not just part of the title but an emotion for Bengalureans, netizens pointed out while appealing to politicians to stop playing politics over names. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, &#8216;Namma Metro&#8217; came under spotlight after large and medium industries minister MBPatil stated that there have been suggestions about naming the entire metro rail network in Bengaluru after Basaveshwara,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The proposal to rename the Namma Metro rail network after 12th century social reformer Basaveshwara has triggered sharp reactions from Bengalureans: A majority has urged the government to toss out the renaming idea and instead focus on expediting infrastructure projects. The prefix of &#8216;Namma&#8217; is not just part of the title but an emotion for Bengalureans, netizens pointed out while appealing to politicians to stop playing politics over names. In fact, &#8216;Namma Metro&#8217; came under spotlight after large and medium industries minister MBPatil stated that there have been suggestions about naming the entire metro rail network in Bengaluru after [&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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613473","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=613473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}