{"id":264263,"date":"2019-03-14T07:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264263"},"modified":"2019-03-14T07:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T07:06:43","slug":"national-highways-widening-to-eat-into-squirrel-sanctuary-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/national-highways-widening-to-eat-into-squirrel-sanctuary-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"National Highways widening to eat into squirrel sanctuary zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is proposing to upgrade the Thirumangalam-Rajapalayam section of the NH-744 to four lane for which 233.12-hectare land in the protected area falling within the 10-km eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of the Srivilliputtur Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary is likely to come under the hammer. <\/p>\n<p>The project alignment is part of the Madurai-Kollam section and included under inter-corridor route of the Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I spanning Madurai and Virudhnagar districts.   V Saravanan, project director, Regional Office (Madurai), submitted the proposal, seeking the State forest clearance on March 2 and the proposal is currently under consideration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is proposing to upgrade the Thirumangalam-Rajapalayam section of the NH-744 to four lane for which 233.12-hectare land in the protected area falling within the 10-km eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of the Srivilliputtur Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary is likely to come under the hammer. The project alignment is part of the Madurai-Kollam section and included under inter-corridor route of the Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I spanning Madurai and Virudhnagar districts. V Saravanan, project director, Regional Office (Madurai), submitted the proposal, seeking the State forest clearance on March 2 and the proposal is currently under consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264263","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}