{"id":447402,"date":"2021-11-05T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447402"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:54:18","slug":"telecom-power-depts-lag-in-capex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/telecom-power-depts-lag-in-capex\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom, power depts lag in capex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman kicked off her consultations on capital expenditure (capex), one of the reasons for the telecom department and the power ministry to be summoned was the low spending so far this year.<br \/>\nAccording to data released by the controller general of accounts, during the first half of the financial year, DoT had spent 12% of the allocated Rs 25,934 crore against 41% of the expenditure for all ministries put together. And, the power ministry managed to spend just 3% of the allocation.<br \/>\nAt the same time, several ministries \u2014 from railways to roads, urban development and defence \u2014 have managed to speed up their capital spending during April-September (see graphic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman kicked off her consultations on capital expenditure (capex), one of the reasons for the telecom department and the power ministry to be summoned was the low spending so far this year. According to data released by the controller general of accounts, during the first half of the financial year, DoT had spent 12% of the allocated Rs 25,934 crore against 41% of the expenditure for all ministries put together. And, the power ministry managed to spend just 3% of the allocation. At the same time, several ministries \u2014 from railways to roads, urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447402","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}