{"id":656406,"date":"2025-12-15T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656406"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:53:28","slug":"8th-pay-commission-railways-plans-cost-cutting-to-deal-with-higher-wages-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/8th-pay-commission-railways-plans-cost-cutting-to-deal-with-higher-wages-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"8th pay commission: Railways plans cost-cutting to deal with higher wages, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railways is reportedly implementing cost-cutting initiatives across maintenance, procurement and energy sectors to fortify its financial position before dealing with increased wage expenses anticipated from the Eighth Pay Commission, The Times of India reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 8th Central Pay Commission, established in January 2024, will review pay, allowances and pensions of central government employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railways is reportedly implementing cost-cutting initiatives across maintenance, procurement and energy sectors to fortify its financial position before dealing with increased wage expenses anticipated from the Eighth Pay Commission, The Times of India reported. The 8th Central Pay Commission, established in January 2024, will review pay, allowances and pensions of central government employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-railways-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656406","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}