{"id":289426,"date":"2019-08-29T07:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289426"},"modified":"2019-08-29T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:13:45","slug":"uttans-east-indians-oppose-road-widening-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttans-east-indians-oppose-road-widening-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttan\u2019s East Indians oppose road-widening project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the East Indian community in Uttan have opposed the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation\u2019s (MBMC) alleged plan to move the bust of Joseph Baptista, a freedom fighter from their community, to widen the Bhayandar-Uttan Road.<\/p>\n<p>An MBMC official, however, said, \u201cI am not sure whether the bust is going to be moved, but the plans include a beautified junction named after him [Baptista], where the Kolis and East Indians will be able to pay their respects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after MBMC officials met a few locals and the priest of St Anthony\u2019s Church, Malvani, to speak about the project, and how would it affect the memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the East Indian community in Uttan have opposed the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation\u2019s (MBMC) alleged plan to move the bust of Joseph Baptista, a freedom fighter from their community, to widen the Bhayandar-Uttan Road. An MBMC official, however, said, \u201cI am not sure whether the bust is going to be moved, but the plans include a beautified junction named after him [Baptista], where the Kolis and East Indians will be able to pay their respects.\u201d This comes after MBMC officials met a few locals and the priest of St Anthony\u2019s Church, Malvani, to speak about the project, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289426","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}