{"id":287721,"date":"2019-08-19T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287721"},"modified":"2019-08-19T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:01:10","slug":"chief-secretary-moots-cess-for-infra-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chief-secretary-moots-cess-for-infra-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Secretary moots cess for infra projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A proposal to levy a 5 per cent cess on developers when they seek approval for their infrastructure projects was mooted during a meeting of the Chief Secretary with all civic and utility agencies in the city on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar told TNIE, \u201cThe provision to collect such a cess for projects related to drinking water, mass rapid transport, roads and slum development is there under Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act. It has so far not been implemented. We are proposing collection of such a cess through BBMP and BDA.\u201d Mass rapid refers to Metro, suburban rail and BMTC, he added.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A proposal to levy a 5 per cent cess on developers when they seek approval for their infrastructure projects was mooted during a meeting of the Chief Secretary with all civic and utility agencies in the city on Saturday. Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar told TNIE, \u201cThe provision to collect such a cess for projects related to drinking water, mass rapid transport, roads and slum development is there under Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act. It has so far not been implemented. We are proposing collection of such a cess through BBMP and BDA.\u201d Mass rapid refers to [&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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287721","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\/287721","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=287721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}