{"id":306920,"date":"2019-12-23T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306920"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:00:17","slug":"377-infrastructure-projects-show-cost-overruns-of-rs-3-94-lakh-crore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/377-infrastructure-projects-show-cost-overruns-of-rs-3-94-lakh-crore-2\/","title":{"rendered":"377 infrastructure projects show cost overruns of Rs 3.94 lakh crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 377 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns of more than Rs 3.94 lakh crore owing to delays and other reasons, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above.<\/p>\n<p>Of such 1,635 projects, 377 projects reported cost overruns and 565 projects time escalation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotal original cost of implementation of the 1635 projects was Rs 19,47,462.67 crore and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be Rs 23,41,784.84 crore, which reflects overall cost overruns of Rs 3,94,322.17 crore (20.25 per cent of original cost),\u201d the ministry\u2019s latest report for September 2019 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 377 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns of more than Rs 3.94 lakh crore owing to delays and other reasons, according to a report. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above. Of such 1,635 projects, 377 projects reported cost overruns and 565 projects time escalation. \u201cTotal original cost of implementation of the 1635 projects was Rs 19,47,462.67 crore and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be Rs 23,41,784.84 crore, which reflects overall cost overruns of Rs 3,94,322.17 crore [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306920","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=306920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}