{"id":406092,"date":"2021-03-22T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406092"},"modified":"2021-03-22T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:34:46","slug":"449-infrastructure-projects-show-cost-overruns-worth-rs-4-29-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/449-infrastructure-projects-show-cost-overruns-worth-rs-4-29-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"449 infrastructure projects show cost overruns worth Rs 4.29 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 449 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.29 lakh crore, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above. <\/p>\n<p>Of the 1,736 such projects, 449 reported cost overruns and 547 were delayed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total original cost of implementation of the 1,736 projects was Rs 22,32,019.72 crore and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be Rs 26,61,205.74 crore,&#8221; the ministry&#8217;s latest report for February 2021 said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the cost overrun for completing these 449 projects works out to be Rs 4,29,186.02 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 449 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.29 lakh crore, according to a report. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above. Of the 1,736 such projects, 449 reported cost overruns and 547 were delayed. &#8220;Total original cost of implementation of the 1,736 projects was Rs 22,32,019.72 crore and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be Rs 26,61,205.74 crore,&#8221; the ministry&#8217;s latest report for February 2021 said. According to the report, the cost overrun for [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406092","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=406092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}