{"id":284959,"date":"2019-07-29T07:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284959"},"modified":"2019-07-29T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:14:06","slug":"baba-labh-singh-builder-of-7-bridges-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/baba-labh-singh-builder-of-7-bridges-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Baba Labh Singh, builder of 7 bridges dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly philanthropist Sant Baba Labh Singh, 96, who served hundreds daily at community kitchens and played a crucial role in construction of seven bridges in Punjab and Haryana, died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Known as &#8216;Pullan Wala Baba&#8217;, he died of cardiac arrest at Qila Anandgarh in the Anandpur Sahib district of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>He was credited with construction of seven bridges in the two states. A 600-ft bridge with a charity of Rs 10 crore by Baba Labh Singh was completed last year on the Sutlej river, connecting Shahpur Bela village near Kiratpur Sahib with the Bunga Sahib-Nurpur Bedi road.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge benefited nearly 250 residents, who remained marooned in the village every monsoon due to the swollen river.<\/p>\n<p>He had helped construct six other bridges,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly philanthropist Sant Baba Labh Singh, 96, who served hundreds daily at community kitchens and played a crucial role in construction of seven bridges in Punjab and Haryana, died on Sunday. Known as &#8216;Pullan Wala Baba&#8217;, he died of cardiac arrest at Qila Anandgarh in the Anandpur Sahib district of Punjab. He was credited with construction of seven bridges in the two states. A 600-ft bridge with a charity of Rs 10 crore by Baba Labh Singh was completed last year on the Sutlej river, connecting Shahpur Bela village near Kiratpur Sahib with the Bunga Sahib-Nurpur Bedi road. The bridge [&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":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284959","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=284959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}