{"id":444658,"date":"2021-10-23T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444658"},"modified":"2021-10-23T12:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:29:29","slug":"glare-on-centre-apathy-in-building-parallel-bridges-in-north-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/glare-on-centre-apathy-in-building-parallel-bridges-in-north-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Glare on Centre apathy in building parallel bridges in north Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The precarious condition of two bridges along National Highway 31 \u2014 the Coronation Bridge at Sevoke and Balason river bridge \u2014 has raised questions over the Centre\u2019s alleged apathy in building parallel bridges which are required to keep connectivity intact in north Bengal following the damage to road infrastructure due to inclement weather in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two bridges are in precarious condition for years. We have been hearing that the Centre would strengthen them and also construct new bridges running parallel to these.\u2026 But the promises have remained only on paper,\u201d said a prominent businessman of Siliguri, who did not wish to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The precarious condition of two bridges along National Highway 31 \u2014 the Coronation Bridge at Sevoke and Balason river bridge \u2014 has raised questions over the Centre\u2019s alleged apathy in building parallel bridges which are required to keep connectivity intact in north Bengal following the damage to road infrastructure due to inclement weather in the region. \u201cThese two bridges are in precarious condition for years. We have been hearing that the Centre would strengthen them and also construct new bridges running parallel to these.\u2026 But the promises have remained only on paper,\u201d said a prominent businessman of Siliguri, who did [&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-444658","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\/444658","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=444658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}