{"id":286658,"date":"2019-08-08T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286658"},"modified":"2019-08-08T06:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T06:04:41","slug":"zojila-tender-scrapped-fresh-bids-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/zojila-tender-scrapped-fresh-bids-in-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Zojila tender scrapped; fresh bids in three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government has scrapped the tender for construction of the Zojila tunnel in Jammu &amp; Kashmir citing administrative reasons. <\/p>\n<p>It will now float a fresh tender in three months after securing the cabinet\u2019s approval, which has become necessary following an increase in the cost estimate of the project to Rs 8,400 crore from Rs 6,000 crore, an official in the know told ET. The bids for the project were due on Thursday following multiple postponements this year. <\/p>\n<p>The cost of the project has been revised upwards by Rs 1,600 crore after termination of the contract with IL&amp;FS Transportation Network, the road development arm of the crisis-hit Infrastructure Leasing &amp; Financial Services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government has scrapped the tender for construction of the Zojila tunnel in Jammu &amp; Kashmir citing administrative reasons. It will now float a fresh tender in three months after securing the cabinet\u2019s approval, which has become necessary following an increase in the cost estimate of the project to Rs 8,400 crore from Rs 6,000 crore, an official in the know told ET. The bids for the project were due on Thursday following multiple postponements this year. The cost of the project has been revised upwards by Rs 1,600 crore after termination of the contract with IL&amp;FS Transportation [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286658","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=286658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}