{"id":628921,"date":"2024-01-18T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=628921"},"modified":"2024-01-18T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:33:06","slug":"597-stations-now-disabled-friendly-with-lifts-and-escalators-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/597-stations-now-disabled-friendly-with-lifts-and-escalators-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"597 stations now disabled-friendly with lifts and escalators: Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 597 railway stations are now equipped with either escalators or lifts to make them accessible for persons with disabilities, according to the railways. These were installed as part of the government&#8217;s &#8220;Sugamya Bharat Mission&#8221; or &#8220;Accessible India Campaign&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Giving a break-up, the railways in the statement said 1,287 escalators at 372 stations and 1,292 lifts at 497 stations were provided till December last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 597 railway stations are now equipped with either escalators or lifts to make them accessible for persons with disabilities, according to the railways. These were installed as part of the government&#8217;s &#8220;Sugamya Bharat Mission&#8221; or &#8220;Accessible India Campaign&#8221;, it said. Giving a break-up, the railways in the statement said 1,287 escalators at 372 stations and 1,292 lifts at 497 stations were provided till December last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628921","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}