{"id":391913,"date":"2020-12-28T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391913"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T06:09:51","slug":"majerhat-canal-to-be-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/majerhat-canal-to-be-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Majerhat canal to be restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stretch of a canal that had been blocked to build the Majerhat bridge will be restored by the middle of January, government and Calcutta Municipal Corporation engineers said. raising hopes that Kidderpore and Mominpur would face less waterlogging next monsoon. <\/p>\n<p>Known as the boat canal, it drains out rainwater from large parts of Kidderpore and Mominpore into the Hooghly.  <\/p>\n<p>The PWD had blocked a 33-metre-long stretch of the 2km-long canal to facilitate the construction of the Majerhat bridge. The affected stretch is just below the bridge. <\/p>\n<p>The block was thought to be one of the reasons for recurrent waterlogging in the Kidderpore and Mominpur areas in the past two monsoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stretch of a canal that had been blocked to build the Majerhat bridge will be restored by the middle of January, government and Calcutta Municipal Corporation engineers said. raising hopes that Kidderpore and Mominpur would face less waterlogging next monsoon. Known as the boat canal, it drains out rainwater from large parts of Kidderpore and Mominpore into the Hooghly. The PWD had blocked a 33-metre-long stretch of the 2km-long canal to facilitate the construction of the Majerhat bridge. The affected stretch is just below the bridge. The block was thought to be one of the reasons for recurrent waterlogging [&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-391913","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\/391913","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=391913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}