{"id":165086,"date":"2023-06-03T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T00:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/deadly-indian-rail-crash-shifts-focus-from-new-trains-to-safety"},"modified":"2023-06-03T19:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T00:27:02","slug":"deadly-indian-rail-crash-shifts-focus-from-new-trains-to-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/deadly-indian-rail-crash-shifts-focus-from-new-trains-to-safety","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Indian rail crash shifts focus from new trains to safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deadly-indian-rail-crash-shifts-focus-from-new-trains-to-safety2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long considered the lifeline of the world\u2019s most populous country, the 170-year-old system has seen rapid expansion and modernisation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s push to boost infrastructure and connectivity in the fast-growing economy.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the government made a record 2.4-trillion-rupee ($30 billion) capital outlay for the railways, a 50% increase over the previous fiscal year, to upgrade tracks, ease congestion and add new trains.<\/p>\n<p>A new, semi-high-speed train built in India and called the \u201cVande Bharat Express\u201d, or \u201cSalute to India Express\u201d, is showcased as evidence of this modernisation, with Modi himself flagging off the first journeys of many of the trains around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long considered the lifeline of the world\u2019s most populous country, the 170-year-old system has seen rapid expansion and modernisation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s push to boost infrastructure and connectivity in the fast-growing economy. This year, the government made a record 2.4-trillion-rupee ($30 billion) capital outlay for the railways, a 50% increase over the previous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}