{"id":637728,"date":"2024-03-05T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T04:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=637728"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:39:39","slug":"delhi-metro-update-dmrcs-daily-ridership-soars-to-60-lakh-receives-rs-500-crore-in-2024-25-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-metro-update-dmrcs-daily-ridership-soars-to-60-lakh-receives-rs-500-crore-in-2024-25-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Metro Update: DMRC\u2019s daily ridership soars to 60 lakh, receives Rs 500 crore in 2024-25 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government has earmarked Rs 500 crore for the Delhi Metro in its 2024-25 Budget, unveiled on Monday, in a bid to bolster public transportation infrastructure. The move comes as Finance Minister Atishi highlighted the exponential growth in ridership, citing a surge from 24 lakh to over 60 lakh daily commuters since 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Presenting a comprehensive budget with a total outlay of Rs 76,000 crore, Atishi emphasised the government\u2019s commitment to providing top-notch public transportation facilities to every Delhiite. Under the stewardship of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, she noted \u201csignificant improvements\u201d in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi government has earmarked Rs 500 crore for the Delhi Metro in its 2024-25 Budget, unveiled on Monday, in a bid to bolster public transportation infrastructure. The move comes as Finance Minister Atishi highlighted the exponential growth in ridership, citing a surge from 24 lakh to over 60 lakh daily commuters since 2014. Presenting a comprehensive budget with a total outlay of Rs 76,000 crore, Atishi emphasised the government\u2019s commitment to providing top-notch public transportation facilities to every Delhiite. Under the stewardship of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, she noted \u201csignificant improvements\u201d in the sector.<\/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-637728","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\/637728","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=637728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}