{"id":628188,"date":"2024-01-15T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=628188"},"modified":"2024-01-15T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:47:53","slug":"indian-railways-to-give-concessions-to-senior-citizens-journalists-heres-what-ashwini-vaishnaw-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-to-give-concessions-to-senior-citizens-journalists-heres-what-ashwini-vaishnaw-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways to give concessions to senior citizens, journalists? Here\u2019s what Ashwini Vaishnaw says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw addressed demands to reinstate pre-Covid fare concessions for senior citizens and media persons, stating that every train passenger already receives a 55% concession on their journey. Without giving any direct reply to questions by media persons on the restoration of concessions, Vaishnaw, during a visit to Ahmedabad to oversee the bullet train project\u2019s progress, said that the Indian Railways is already offering 55% concession on fares to each passenger. <\/p>\n<p>Vaishnaw was in Ahmedabad to review the progress of the ongoing bullet train project among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw addressed demands to reinstate pre-Covid fare concessions for senior citizens and media persons, stating that every train passenger already receives a 55% concession on their journey. Without giving any direct reply to questions by media persons on the restoration of concessions, Vaishnaw, during a visit to Ahmedabad to oversee the bullet train project\u2019s progress, said that the Indian Railways is already offering 55% concession on fares to each passenger. Vaishnaw was in Ahmedabad to review the progress of the ongoing bullet train project among other things.<\/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-628188","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\/628188","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=628188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}