{"id":448840,"date":"2021-11-10T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448840"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:33:06","slug":"bmc-approves-rs-3-crore-increase-in-repair-cost-of-5-skywalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmc-approves-rs-3-crore-increase-in-repair-cost-of-5-skywalks\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC approves Rs 3-crore increase in repair cost of 5 skywalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The standing committee on Tuesday approved a Rs 3 crore increase in the repair work of five skywalks in the western suburbs. While the repair cost in 2019 was proposed to be Rs 18 crore, it has now been increased to Rs 21 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the recommendations from a committee led by VJTI, repairs of skywalks in Borivali, Dahisar West and east, Goregaon and Kandivali East will be undertaken by the civic body.<\/p>\n<p>After the collapse of the Himalaya Bridge at CSMT in March 2019 in which seven people died and 31 were injured, the BMC had appointed Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) to conduct a structural audit of 24 skywalks. The committee had proposed repairs and in some instances reconstruction of the skywalks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standing committee on Tuesday approved a Rs 3 crore increase in the repair work of five skywalks in the western suburbs. While the repair cost in 2019 was proposed to be Rs 18 crore, it has now been increased to Rs 21 crore. Based on the recommendations from a committee led by VJTI, repairs of skywalks in Borivali, Dahisar West and east, Goregaon and Kandivali East will be undertaken by the civic body. After the collapse of the Himalaya Bridge at CSMT in March 2019 in which seven people died and 31 were injured, the BMC had appointed Veermata [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448840","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=448840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}