{"id":370986,"date":"2020-09-01T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370986"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:57:50","slug":"no-new-road-projects-to-be-taken-up-bmc-to-focus-on-ongoing-repair-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-new-road-projects-to-be-taken-up-bmc-to-focus-on-ongoing-repair-works\/","title":{"rendered":"No new road projects to be taken up, BMC to focus on ongoing repair works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a dip in revenues, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will not take up any new road projects this year and instead focus on finishing ongoing repair works.<\/p>\n<p>From October, apart from the already initiated repair works, the civic body had planned taking up new road projects over a 289 km stretch \u2014 concrete as well as asphalt \u2014 across Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking note of the strain on finances, we have been asked not to take up any new road works. Whatever works had been initiated in April, we will focus on finishing them after the monsoon is over. From October 1, work on road repairs will resume,\u201d said a senior official from BMC\u2019s roads and traffic department. Before monsoon, repair works had started on 400 roads, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a dip in revenues, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will not take up any new road projects this year and instead focus on finishing ongoing repair works. From October, apart from the already initiated repair works, the civic body had planned taking up new road projects over a 289 km stretch \u2014 concrete as well as asphalt \u2014 across Mumbai. \u201cTaking note of the strain on finances, we have been asked not to take up any new road works. Whatever works had been initiated in April, we will focus on finishing them after the monsoon is over. From October [&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-370986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370986","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=370986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}