{"id":365777,"date":"2020-07-31T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365777"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:20:35","slug":"covid-deepens-indian-infra-sectors-troubles-flagship-projects-among-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-deepens-indian-infra-sectors-troubles-flagship-projects-among-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid deepens Indian infra sector&#8217;s troubles, flagship projects among casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure projects in India are infamous for cost overruns and delays, and they are set for even more pain as the coronavirus sweeps through Asia\u2019s third-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of everything from roads to ports were behind schedule by an average three-and-a-half years, according to an analysis by the Statistics Ministry. Costs of 1,682 projects have shot up by a combined Rs 4 lakh crore over their life cycle, the ministry\u2019s latest update as of April shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure projects in India are infamous for cost overruns and delays, and they are set for even more pain as the coronavirus sweeps through Asia\u2019s third-largest economy. Construction of everything from roads to ports were behind schedule by an average three-and-a-half years, according to an analysis by the Statistics Ministry. Costs of 1,682 projects have shot up by a combined Rs 4 lakh crore over their life cycle, the ministry\u2019s latest update as of April shows.<\/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-365777","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\/365777","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=365777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}