The deadlines of most ongoing infrastructure projects across Delhi have been revised by over two months owing to the Covid-induced lockdown that forced a pause in work as labourers began leaving for their hometowns.<\/p>\n
Although work has resumed, the pace remains sluggish.<\/p>\n
An official of the Public Works Department (PWD) said around 50% of labourers have come back and work will start in full swing by early July. \u201cThe deadlines will be revised on a case-to-case basis,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n
For instance, the inauguration of the redeveloped Chandni Chowk was scheduled for April 17 but was cancelled due to the Covid situation. The Central verge is complete, with only a few street lights and CCTVs to be set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The deadlines of most ongoing infrastructure projects across Delhi have been revised by over two months owing to the Covid-induced lockdown that forced a pause in work as labourers began leaving for their hometowns. Although work has resumed, the pace remains sluggish. An official of the Public Works Department (PWD) said around 50% of labourers have come back and work will start in full swing by early July. \u201cThe deadlines will be revised on a case-to-case basis,\u201d the official said. For instance, the inauguration of the redeveloped Chandni Chowk was scheduled for April 17 but was cancelled due to the […]<\/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-420408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420408","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=420408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}