{"id":287348,"date":"2019-08-16T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287348"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:35:08","slug":"ilfs-crisis-deals-fresh-blow-to-ladakh-road-link-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ilfs-crisis-deals-fresh-blow-to-ladakh-road-link-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IL&amp;FS crisis deals fresh blow to Ladakh road link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The endless wait for all-weather connectivity to Ladakh just got longer, due to the crisis at IL&amp;FS, pushing up the cost by over 20% or around Rs 1,400 crore to over Rs 8,200 crore. <\/p>\n<p>With the road transport and highways ministry ousting the troubled concessionaire for the strategic projects \u2014 Zojila Pass and Z-Morh tunnels \u2014 it could take another six-seven years for the the 20.5-km tunnels on NH-1A, connecting Srinagar with Leh, to be completed. <\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, the cabinet had approved the Zojila tunnel project at Rs 6,800 crore. The state-owned National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL), which is responsible for building highways in hill states and north-east, had invited fresh bids after cancelling the contracts with IL&amp;FS. Now since the cost has gone up, the agency needs to get fresh Cabinet nod. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The endless wait for all-weather connectivity to Ladakh just got longer, due to the crisis at IL&amp;FS, pushing up the cost by over 20% or around Rs 1,400 crore to over Rs 8,200 crore. With the road transport and highways ministry ousting the troubled concessionaire for the strategic projects \u2014 Zojila Pass and Z-Morh tunnels \u2014 it could take another six-seven years for the the 20.5-km tunnels on NH-1A, connecting Srinagar with Leh, to be completed. In January 2018, the cabinet had approved the Zojila tunnel project at Rs 6,800 crore. The state-owned National Highways and Infrastructure Development [&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-287348","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\/287348","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=287348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}