{"id":374824,"date":"2020-09-23T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374824"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:40:15","slug":"delhi-steps-afoot-to-fix-minto-bridge-underpass-flooding-pwd-floats-tender-to-hire-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-steps-afoot-to-fix-minto-bridge-underpass-flooding-pwd-floats-tender-to-hire-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Steps afoot to fix Minto Bridge underpass flooding, PWD floats tender to hire consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of waterlogging at the Minto Bridge underpass during monsoon, the Public Works Department (PWD) has floated a tender to hire a consultancy firm to help develop an independent drainage system for the area.<\/p>\n<p>This comes two months after a 56-year-old man drowned in the waterlogged underpass, following a spell of heavy rainfall in the city. Police had said Kundan Kumar\u2019s van got stuck in the underpass and he couldn\u2019t escape.<\/p>\n<p>A PWD official said, \u201cThe existing drainage system \u2014 a deep barrel drain \u2014 was created during the British era. <\/p>\n<p>Back then, both sewage water and rainwater would go into the same lines and then flow into the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of waterlogging at the Minto Bridge underpass during monsoon, the Public Works Department (PWD) has floated a tender to hire a consultancy firm to help develop an independent drainage system for the area. This comes two months after a 56-year-old man drowned in the waterlogged underpass, following a spell of heavy rainfall in the city. Police had said Kundan Kumar\u2019s van got stuck in the underpass and he couldn\u2019t escape. A PWD official said, \u201cThe existing drainage system \u2014 a deep barrel drain \u2014 was created during the British era. Back then, both sewage water and rainwater would [&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-374824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374824","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=374824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}