{"id":368251,"date":"2020-08-18T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T03:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368251"},"modified":"2020-08-18T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:12:00","slug":"public-hearing-on-peripheral-ring-road-project-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/public-hearing-on-peripheral-ring-road-project-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hearing on Peripheral Ring Road project postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a victory of sorts for activists opposing the proposal for the Peripheral Ring Road, the public hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengaluru Development Authority has faced the ire of the National Green Tribunal and the Supreme Court for withholding facts about the project in its previous environment impact assessment report, which put the number of trees to be axed at 200.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, in a revised report, the authority said that the 65.5-km PRR, estimated to cost Rs 15,111 crore, requires the felling of 33,838 trees, about a quarter of them in the Thippagondanahalli catchment area. The government sought to give a push to the project by deciding to hold a public hearing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a victory of sorts for activists opposing the proposal for the Peripheral Ring Road, the public hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning has been postponed. The Bengaluru Development Authority has faced the ire of the National Green Tribunal and the Supreme Court for withholding facts about the project in its previous environment impact assessment report, which put the number of trees to be axed at 200. Last month, in a revised report, the authority said that the 65.5-km PRR, estimated to cost Rs 15,111 crore, requires the felling of 33,838 trees, about a quarter of them in the Thippagondanahalli catchment [&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-368251","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\/368251","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=368251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}