{"id":644145,"date":"2025-08-25T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644145"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:43:10","slug":"no-water-dirty-toilets-cag-flags-poor-sanitation-water-shortages-on-indian-railways-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-water-dirty-toilets-cag-flags-poor-sanitation-water-shortages-on-indian-railways-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No water, dirty toilets\u2019: CAG flags poor sanitation, water shortages on Indian Railways trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways: Amid mounting concerns over dirty washrooms, foul-smelling vestibules, and water shortages, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has raised sharp questions about sanitation and maintenance standards in long-distance trains operated by the South Central Railway (SCR). The report paints a worrying picture of systemic lapses that compromise both passenger comfort and public health, underscoring a gap between official claims and ground realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways: Amid mounting concerns over dirty washrooms, foul-smelling vestibules, and water shortages, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has raised sharp questions about sanitation and maintenance standards in long-distance trains operated by the South Central Railway (SCR). The report paints a worrying picture of systemic lapses that compromise both passenger comfort and public health, underscoring a gap between official claims and ground realities.<\/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-644145","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\/644145","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=644145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}