{"id":369338,"date":"2020-08-22T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369338"},"modified":"2020-08-22T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:57:11","slug":"mumbai-civic-body-okays-rs-2500-crore-cut-for-various-infra-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-civic-body-okays-rs-2500-crore-cut-for-various-infra-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai civic body okays Rs 2,500 crore cut for various infra projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its first general body meeting since the pandemic-induced lockdown, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has approved a Rs 2,500-crore cut from capital works expenditure for financial year 2020-21. The move was necessitated due to falling revenue precipitated by the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting on Thursday chaired by Mayor Kishori Pednekar cleared several budget cuts \u2014 Rs 500 crore cut from the 9.98-km coastal road project, Rs 440 crore from Gargai dam project, Rs 223 crore from roads department and Rs 500 crore from financial aid promised to ailing Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST). The civic body had made budgetary allocation of Rs 2,000 crore for coastal road project, Rs 503.53 crore for Gargai dam project and Rs 1,600 crore for road repair works for 2020-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its first general body meeting since the pandemic-induced lockdown, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has approved a Rs 2,500-crore cut from capital works expenditure for financial year 2020-21. The move was necessitated due to falling revenue precipitated by the lockdown. The meeting on Thursday chaired by Mayor Kishori Pednekar cleared several budget cuts \u2014 Rs 500 crore cut from the 9.98-km coastal road project, Rs 440 crore from Gargai dam project, Rs 223 crore from roads department and Rs 500 crore from financial aid promised to ailing Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST). The civic body had made budgetary [&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-369338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369338","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=369338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}