{"id":366144,"date":"2020-08-04T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366144"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:23:04","slug":"projects-that-ignore-sustainability-concerns-violate-citizens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/projects-that-ignore-sustainability-concerns-violate-citizens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects that ignore sustainability concerns violate citizens\u2019 rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite vociferous protests by several citizen groups and environmentalists, road development projects are planned with total disregard for trees. The 33,000 plus trees lined up for felling for the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) adds to the ecological impact of the controversial road-widening on the city\u2019s outskirts. <\/p>\n<p>Interacting with a cross-section of Bengalureans, DH dwells deeper into the dangers posed by the proposed moves to the city\u2019s sustainable growth in the future. As environmentalist V Ramprasad notes, \u201cAny master plan or development or growth has to be in accordance with the democratic law of the land. Hence, due processes need to be followed as per the 74th amendment of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite vociferous protests by several citizen groups and environmentalists, road development projects are planned with total disregard for trees. The 33,000 plus trees lined up for felling for the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) adds to the ecological impact of the controversial road-widening on the city\u2019s outskirts. Interacting with a cross-section of Bengalureans, DH dwells deeper into the dangers posed by the proposed moves to the city\u2019s sustainable growth in the future. As environmentalist V Ramprasad notes, \u201cAny master plan or development or growth has to be in accordance with the democratic law of the land. Hence, due processes need to [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366144","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=366144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}