{"id":370265,"date":"2020-08-27T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370265"},"modified":"2020-08-27T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T06:36:05","slug":"work-on-east-west-link-roads-to-be-delayed-as-bmc-cuts-100-funds-for-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/work-on-east-west-link-roads-to-be-delayed-as-bmc-cuts-100-funds-for-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on East-West link roads to be delayed as BMC cuts 100% funds for project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONSTRUCTION of new link roads for improved East-West connectivity in Mumbai will be delayed, as the BMC has decided to slash funding for these works with resources drying up due to a lockdown imposed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The civic body earmarked Rs 48 crore for the works in the present financial year but has now slashed 100 per cent funds allocated for the construction of new roads or missing links, as mentioned in Development Plan (DP) 2034, to reduce traffic congestion and cut travel time.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the BMC cleared a proposal of cuts in capital works expenditure of Rs 2,500 crore, following a drop in revenue amid the outbreak. So far, the civic body has incurred losses of more than Rs 1,000 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONSTRUCTION of new link roads for improved East-West connectivity in Mumbai will be delayed, as the BMC has decided to slash funding for these works with resources drying up due to a lockdown imposed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The civic body earmarked Rs 48 crore for the works in the present financial year but has now slashed 100 per cent funds allocated for the construction of new roads or missing links, as mentioned in Development Plan (DP) 2034, to reduce traffic congestion and cut travel time. Last week, the BMC cleared a proposal of cuts in [&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-370265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370265","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=370265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}