{"id":830,"date":"2018-08-21T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2018-08-21T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:01:46","slug":"kerala-train-services-partially-restored-cm-seeks-more-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Kerala: Train services partially restored, CM seeks more help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi,<\/strong>\u00a0The train services which had collapsed following the incessant downpour in Kerala, have been partially restored.<\/p>\n<p>Train services in Kayankulam-Kottayam- Ernakulam and Palakkad-Shoranur-Kozhikkode sections have been resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Trivandrum- Ernakulam section was also connected by passenger Special Trains for the flood period.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy damages caused by the floods in Aluva- Thrissur, Thrissur-Shoranur, Kayamkulam-Kottayam- Ernakulam Shoranur-Tirur, Shoranur- Palakkad routes have been fixed.<br \/>\nFew special trains were started via Trivandrum, Tirunelveli, and Madurai to Chennai, Egmore, Howarah, Gorakhpur, Bhubaneswar routes to evacuate stranded people.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic in Aluva- Thrissur, Thrissur-Shoranur sections was also restored.Barring the flood-affected areas, the Southern Railway had began running 159 Express trains and 11 passenger trains connecting Kerala to the rest of the states from August 16-18.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday announced that the severe inundation claimed at least 223 lives between August 8-20.<br \/>\nBriefing the media in Trivandrum, the chief minister said, &#8220;223 people lost their lives between August 8-20. Six people died today. The Centre said they will make all necessary requirements available to us but in today&#8217;s situation what is most needed is the necessary help, equivalent to the total damages caused so far.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister further informed that the state has suffered a loss of Rs 19,512 crores due to floods.<br \/>\nThe National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) met for the fifth time in five days in Delhi on Monday to review the rescue and relief operations in the flood-affected areas in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha chaired the meeting. The Chief Secretary of Kerala participated in the meeting via video conference. He informed that there has been less rainfall and floodwater has started receding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,\u00a0The train services which had collapsed following the incessant downpour in Kerala, have been partially restored. Train services in Kayankulam-Kottayam- Ernakulam and Palakkad-Shoranur-Kozhikkode sections have been resumed. Trivandrum- Ernakulam section was also connected by passenger Special Trains for the flood period. Heavy damages caused by the floods in Aluva- Thrissur, Thrissur-Shoranur, Kayamkulam-Kottayam- Ernakulam Shoranur-Tirur, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}