{"id":285892,"date":"2019-08-05T04:38:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285892"},"modified":"2019-08-05T04:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:43:50","slug":"bridge-to-replace-rishikeshs-lakshman-jhula-before-2021-kumbh-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bridge-to-replace-rishikeshs-lakshman-jhula-before-2021-kumbh-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge to replace Rishikesh&#8217;s Lakshman Jhula before 2021 Kumbh Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspension bridge will be built on the Ganga in Rishikesh before the &#8216;Kumbh Mela&#8217; of 2021 as an alternative to the iconic Lakshman Jhula, which was closed last month because of its dilapidated condition, an official said Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>A suspension bridge with a span of 150 metres meant for pedestrians will be built close to the iconic Lakshman Jhula as its substitute, Additional Chief Secretary Om Prakash said. <\/p>\n<p>A site for the bridge on the upper stream side of Lakshman Jhula has been identified by the PWD and an amount of more than Rs 3 crore has been sanctioned for initial work related to the project, he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have set ourself the target of completing the construction of the bridge before the 2021 Kumbh Mela,&#8221; the official said, adding that the iconic bridge will be preserved as a British-era legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspension bridge will be built on the Ganga in Rishikesh before the &#8216;Kumbh Mela&#8217; of 2021 as an alternative to the iconic Lakshman Jhula, which was closed last month because of its dilapidated condition, an official said Saturday. A suspension bridge with a span of 150 metres meant for pedestrians will be built close to the iconic Lakshman Jhula as its substitute, Additional Chief Secretary Om Prakash said. A site for the bridge on the upper stream side of Lakshman Jhula has been identified by the PWD and an amount of more than Rs 3 crore has been sanctioned [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285892","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=285892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}