{"id":28676,"date":"2020-09-25T05:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28676"},"modified":"2020-09-25T05:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:03:53","slug":"railways-target-to-complete-100-electrification-of-broad-gauge-routes-by-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/railways-target-to-complete-100-electrification-of-broad-gauge-routes-by-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways target to complete 100% electrification of broad gauge routes by 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha stated that Indian Railways planned for 100 per cent electrification of its broad gauge routes by 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Minister informed that around 63 per cent broad gauge lines have already been electrified out of a total 63,631 route kilometers as on 1st of April this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 23,765 route kilometre lines are yet to be electrified in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several steps have been taken to expedite electrification of railway lines in the country and they include, award of Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts, better project monitoring mechanism etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha stated that Indian Railways planned for 100 per cent electrification of its broad gauge routes by 2023. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points &nbsp;The Minister informed that around 63 per cent broad gauge lines have already been electrified out of a total 63,631 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[66],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020","tag-railway-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28678,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions\/28678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28676"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}