{"id":652429,"date":"2025-11-13T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652429"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:30:17","slug":"railways-sanctions-ferozepur-patti-rail-link-project-in-punjab-says-mos-bittu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-sanctions-ferozepur-patti-rail-link-project-in-punjab-says-mos-bittu\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways sanctions Ferozepur-Patti rail link project in Punjab, says MoS Bittu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Railways has sanctioned the 25.72 km Ferozepur-Patti rail link project connecting Punjab&#8217;s Malwa and Majha regions with an outlay of Rs 764 crore, Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media, Bittu, minister of state for railways, said the project passed on October 27 will enhance regional mobility and logistics efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The project will reduce the distance between Ferozepur and Amritsar from 196 km to about 100 km, and shorten the Jammu-Ferozepur-Fazilka-Mumbai corridor by 236 km, Bittu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Railways has sanctioned the 25.72 km Ferozepur-Patti rail link project connecting Punjab&#8217;s Malwa and Majha regions with an outlay of Rs 764 crore, Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu said on Wednesday. Addressing the media, Bittu, minister of state for railways, said the project passed on October 27 will enhance regional mobility and logistics efficiency. The project will reduce the distance between Ferozepur and Amritsar from 196 km to about 100 km, and shorten the Jammu-Ferozepur-Fazilka-Mumbai corridor by 236 km, Bittu said.<\/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-652429","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\/652429","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=652429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}