{"id":356957,"date":"2020-06-12T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356957"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:23:32","slug":"17-yrs-after-vajpayee-laid-foundation-stone-railways-racing-to-ready-bihar-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/17-yrs-after-vajpayee-laid-foundation-stone-railways-racing-to-ready-bihar-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"17 yrs after Vajpayee laid foundation stone, Railways racing to ready Bihar bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-km-long railway mega bridge on river Kosi, the foundation stone of which was laid by former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee 17 years ago, may be inaugurated around his second death anniversary in poll-bound Bihar.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge is of strategic importance for India and seeks to provide a shorter route to the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>As per instructions from the Railways top brass, zonal officials have fast-tracked the work and, sources said, efforts are being made to complete the work of the bridge in time for the Centre to make it operational by August. <\/p>\n<p>The bridge\u2019s foundation stone was laid by Vajpayee in 2003 as part of the government\u2019s decision to provide strategic linkages to the Northeast Frontier Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-km-long railway mega bridge on river Kosi, the foundation stone of which was laid by former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee 17 years ago, may be inaugurated around his second death anniversary in poll-bound Bihar. The bridge is of strategic importance for India and seeks to provide a shorter route to the Northeast. As per instructions from the Railways top brass, zonal officials have fast-tracked the work and, sources said, efforts are being made to complete the work of the bridge in time for the Centre to make it operational by August. The bridge\u2019s foundation stone was laid [&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-356957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356957","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=356957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}