{"id":644132,"date":"2025-08-25T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644132"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:22:23","slug":"first-rail-link-to-aizawl-likely-to-open-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-rail-link-to-aizawl-likely-to-open-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"First rail link to Aizawl likely to open in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate on Sepember 13 the Bairabi-Sairang railway project that would link Mizoram&#8217;s capital Aizawl to the railway grid, marking the latest milestone in sustained, decade-long efforts to expand the railroad infrastructure in India&#8217;s mountainous northeast. <\/p>\n<p>Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the erstwhile remote region to be connected by the 51.38-km railroad, boosting surface transport in a part of the country where heavy road-freighting costs through landslide-prone motorways have often been cited as one of the major deterrents to industrialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate on Sepember 13 the Bairabi-Sairang railway project that would link Mizoram&#8217;s capital Aizawl to the railway grid, marking the latest milestone in sustained, decade-long efforts to expand the railroad infrastructure in India&#8217;s mountainous northeast. Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the erstwhile remote region to be connected by the 51.38-km railroad, boosting surface transport in a part of the country where heavy road-freighting costs through landslide-prone motorways have often been cited as one of the major deterrents to industrialization.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644132","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\/644132","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=644132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}