{"id":454075,"date":"2021-12-04T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T05:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454075"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T06:48:35","slug":"cong-flags-inflated-cost-for-road-project-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cong-flags-inflated-cost-for-road-project-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong flags inflated cost for road project in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party on Friday warned of protests if the Karnataka government takes up a road project in the BBMP limits at an \u201cinflated\u201d cost. <\/p>\n<p>KPCC working president and former Bengaluru in-charge minister Ramalinga Reddy said the project of developing 12 road corridors was proposed when B S Yeddyurappa was the chief minister. Back then, the cost of developing 191 kilometres of roads was estimated at Rs 1,122 crore. <\/p>\n<p>Of this, the road cost was Rs 335 crore and the five-year maintenance cost Rs 787 crore, Reddy said.  <\/p>\n<p>While rules say contractors must maintain the roads for the first two years, Reddy said the government had estimated the maintenance cost from the first year itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party on Friday warned of protests if the Karnataka government takes up a road project in the BBMP limits at an \u201cinflated\u201d cost. KPCC working president and former Bengaluru in-charge minister Ramalinga Reddy said the project of developing 12 road corridors was proposed when B S Yeddyurappa was the chief minister. Back then, the cost of developing 191 kilometres of roads was estimated at Rs 1,122 crore. Of this, the road cost was Rs 335 crore and the five-year maintenance cost Rs 787 crore, Reddy said. While rules say contractors must maintain the roads for the first two [&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-454075","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\/454075","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=454075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}