{"id":446712,"date":"2021-11-01T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446712"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:00:07","slug":"out-of-sight-out-of-bbmps-mind-bengalurus-peripheral-areas-beg-for-better-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/out-of-sight-out-of-bbmps-mind-bengalurus-peripheral-areas-beg-for-better-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of sight, out of BBMP&#8217;s mind: Bengaluru&#8217;s peripheral areas beg for better infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic and the work-from-home culture have exposed the stark differences of infrastructure development that exist between Bengaluru&#8217;s core and peripheral areas.<\/p>\n<p>With a large number of people spending most of their time in their neighbourhood because they no longer have to commute to work, peripheral areas are buzzing with activity and are emerging as commercial hubs in their own right. Chinks are, however, showing in their new avatar. The moment one steps out to visit a glitzy shopping mall or a one-stop supermarket, they come across roads that are no better than dirt tracks, mounds of uncleared garbage, clogged drains and dysfunctional (or in some cases non-existent) streetlights). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic and the work-from-home culture have exposed the stark differences of infrastructure development that exist between Bengaluru&#8217;s core and peripheral areas. With a large number of people spending most of their time in their neighbourhood because they no longer have to commute to work, peripheral areas are buzzing with activity and are emerging as commercial hubs in their own right. Chinks are, however, showing in their new avatar. The moment one steps out to visit a glitzy shopping mall or a one-stop supermarket, they come across roads that are no better than dirt tracks, mounds of uncleared garbage, [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446712","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=446712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}