{"id":369834,"date":"2020-08-25T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369834"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:39:52","slug":"finally-light-at-the-end-of-zojila-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/finally-light-at-the-end-of-zojila-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, light at the end of Zojila tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant development, government of India has set in motion the process for construction of Zojila tunnel on strategic Srinagar-Leh highway.<\/p>\n<p>The Union government is all set to award the work to Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), after seven years of wait and five failed bids, a source said, adding the MEIL has emerged as the lowest bidder. The source said National Highways and Industrial Development Corporation (NHIDCL), a government body entrusted with executing infrastructure projects in hilly areas, had invited fresh bids for the tunnel in July this year. It opened the financial bids on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant development, government of India has set in motion the process for construction of Zojila tunnel on strategic Srinagar-Leh highway. The Union government is all set to award the work to Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), after seven years of wait and five failed bids, a source said, adding the MEIL has emerged as the lowest bidder. The source said National Highways and Industrial Development Corporation (NHIDCL), a government body entrusted with executing infrastructure projects in hilly areas, had invited fresh bids for the tunnel in July this year. It opened the financial bids on Friday.<\/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":[147,130,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-roads-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369834","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=369834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}