{"id":618068,"date":"2023-11-18T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=618068"},"modified":"2023-11-18T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T05:10:17","slug":"indian-railways-proactive-approach-nearly-threefold-surge-in-festive-train-trips-ashwini-vaishnaw-refutes-berth-shortage-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-proactive-approach-nearly-threefold-surge-in-festive-train-trips-ashwini-vaishnaw-refutes-berth-shortage-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways\u2019 proactive approach: Nearly threefold surge in festive train trips, Ashwini Vaishnaw refutes berth shortage claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday dismissed the reports of a shortage of berths for passengers opting for non-AC coaches. Vaishnaw said that instead, there has been a nearly three-fold surge in the number of special train trips this festive season as compared to last year. <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Railways, during the festive season from October 1 to December 31, has operated 6,754 additional train trips to accommodate the increase in passenger demand, a significant rise from the 2,614 trips during the same period last year, the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday dismissed the reports of a shortage of berths for passengers opting for non-AC coaches. Vaishnaw said that instead, there has been a nearly three-fold surge in the number of special train trips this festive season as compared to last year. The Indian Railways, during the festive season from October 1 to December 31, has operated 6,754 additional train trips to accommodate the increase in passenger demand, a significant rise from the 2,614 trips during the same period last year, the minister 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":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618068","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=618068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}