{"id":444971,"date":"2021-10-25T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T06:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444971"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T06:22:31","slug":"how-much-longer-before-tamil-nadus-east-coast-road-can-turn-four-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-much-longer-before-tamil-nadus-east-coast-road-can-turn-four-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"How much longer before Tamil Nadu&#8217;s East Coast Road can turn four-lane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI:  It has been more than three years since the State government gave an \u2018in-principle approval\u2019 for transferring the 61.4 km East Coast Road stretch between Mamallapuram and Marakkanam to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for widening it into four-lane. The road, however, is yet to be handed over to NHAI for upgrading.<\/p>\n<p>It is reliably learnt that the Tamil Nadu Road Development Company (TNRDC), a separate venture under State Highways that developed ECR between Akkarai and Puducherry, has sought compensation from the State government for settling the bank loans before transferring the road to NHAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: It has been more than three years since the State government gave an \u2018in-principle approval\u2019 for transferring the 61.4 km East Coast Road stretch between Mamallapuram and Marakkanam to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for widening it into four-lane. The road, however, is yet to be handed over to NHAI for upgrading. It is reliably learnt that the Tamil Nadu Road Development Company (TNRDC), a separate venture under State Highways that developed ECR between Akkarai and Puducherry, has sought compensation from the State government for settling the bank loans before transferring the road to NHAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444971","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}