{"id":372320,"date":"2020-09-07T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372320"},"modified":"2020-09-07T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:12:58","slug":"pwd-in-a-fix-over-funds-to-repair-39-bridges-in-south-bengal-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pwd-in-a-fix-over-funds-to-repair-39-bridges-in-south-bengal-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"PWD in a fix over funds to repair 39 bridges in south Bengal districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 39 bridges in five south Bengal districts \u2014 North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, Howrah, Nadia and Murshidabad \u2014 are in need of urgent renovation or replacement, a report prepared by the public works department has revealed, but the authorities don\u2019t know how to raise funds for the upkeep the structures.<\/p>\n<p>A source in the PWD said estimates suggested the repairs and restoration would require Rs 140 crore. But at a time when all other expenditures barring Covid-19 related activities have been put to a stop by the finance department, he wondered how the PWD would get the necessary funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of concern is the report is of bridges in five districts only. I don\u2019t know how many bridges need urgent repairs throughout the state right at this moment. Arranging for funds for the repairs would be a challenging job,\u201d said a senior PWD official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 39 bridges in five south Bengal districts \u2014 North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, Howrah, Nadia and Murshidabad \u2014 are in need of urgent renovation or replacement, a report prepared by the public works department has revealed, but the authorities don\u2019t know how to raise funds for the upkeep the structures. A source in the PWD said estimates suggested the repairs and restoration would require Rs 140 crore. But at a time when all other expenditures barring Covid-19 related activities have been put to a stop by the finance department, he wondered how the PWD would get the necessary funds. [&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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372320","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=372320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}