{"id":3518,"date":"2003-03-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/two-indian-companies-to-build-train\/"},"modified":"2003-03-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-03-31T01:43:56","slug":"two-indian-companies-to-build-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/03\/31\/two-indian-companies-to-build-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Indian companies to build train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diario Libre reports that the Puerto Rican company that was handpicked by the Mejia government to build the Haina-Santiago railway has subcontracted an Indian company to carry out the construction. The Puerto Rican company had been allotted the US$325-million concession despite having zero experience in railway construction. The company?s ethics were further called into question when its president was sent to jail for bribing Puerto Rican government officers.&nbsp;<br \/>\nDiario Libre reports that IRCON International Ltd. and RITES Ltd. have been subcontracted to design and build the train line.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo, Jay Nayar, defended the high standards of the two companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diario Libre reports that the Puerto Rican company that was handpicked by the Mejia government to build the Haina-Santiago railway has subcontracted an Indian company to carry out the construction. The Puerto Rican company had been allotted the US$325-million concession despite having zero experience in railway construction. The company?s ethics were further called into question &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/03\/31\/two-indian-companies-to-build-train\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}