{"id":262767,"date":"2019-03-06T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262767"},"modified":"2019-03-06T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:27:04","slug":"activists-experts-decry-hurried-elevated-corridor-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/activists-experts-decry-hurried-elevated-corridor-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists, experts decry hurried elevated corridor push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state government\u2019s decision to go ahead with the controversial elevated corridor has rankled the activists. They are questioning the hurried approach towards a costly project without considering public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL) invited tender for the construction of the 22-km north-south corridor under Phase 1, from the Baptist Hospital to Central Silk Board at a cost of Rs 5060.71 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Vinay K Sreenivasa of the Alternative Law Forum said the move not only ignores public opinion, but also violates a 2010 order by the Karnataka High Court that directed the government to invite objections from the public before taking up such projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government\u2019s decision to go ahead with the controversial elevated corridor has rankled the activists. They are questioning the hurried approach towards a costly project without considering public opinion. The Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL) invited tender for the construction of the 22-km north-south corridor under Phase 1, from the Baptist Hospital to Central Silk Board at a cost of Rs 5060.71 crore. Vinay K Sreenivasa of the Alternative Law Forum said the move not only ignores public opinion, but also violates a 2010 order by the Karnataka High Court that directed the government to invite objections from [&hellip;]<\/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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262767","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=262767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}