{"id":656763,"date":"2025-12-19T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656763"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:37:41","slug":"indian-railways-nears-complete-electrification-hits-99-2-of-broad-gauge-network-ahead-of-uk-russia-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-nears-complete-electrification-hits-99-2-of-broad-gauge-network-ahead-of-uk-russia-china-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways nears complete electrification; hits 99.2% of broad gauge network, ahead of UK, Russia &amp; China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India]: In a significant milestone for the nation&#8217;s transportation infrastructure, Indian Railways has achieved electrification of 99.2 per cent of its broad gauge network, putting it ahead of countries like the UK (39%), Russia (52%), and China (82%), bringing the country closer than ever to a fully electrified railway system, according to the Ministry of Railways&#8217; press release. <\/p>\n<p>Fourteen railway zones, including Central, Eastern, and Northern Railways, have achieved 100% electrification, while 25 states and union territories have also completed electrification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India]: In a significant milestone for the nation&#8217;s transportation infrastructure, Indian Railways has achieved electrification of 99.2 per cent of its broad gauge network, putting it ahead of countries like the UK (39%), Russia (52%), and China (82%), bringing the country closer than ever to a fully electrified railway system, according to the Ministry of Railways&#8217; press release. Fourteen railway zones, including Central, Eastern, and Northern Railways, have achieved 100% electrification, while 25 states and union territories have also completed electrification.<\/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-656763","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\/656763","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=656763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}