{"id":466272,"date":"2022-02-04T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T05:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466272"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:45:17","slug":"kolkata-metro-gets-rs-2316-crore-rs-53-crore-up-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-metro-gets-rs-2316-crore-rs-53-crore-up-from-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata metro gets Rs 2,316 crore, Rs 53 crore up from last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The overall budget allocation for the city&#8217;s Metro projects for the 2022-23 fiscal is Rs 2,316.2 crore, slightly more than last year&#8217;s Rs 2,263 crore. But that is primarily on account of a single project: the East-West Metro, which has received an additional Rs 200 crore. Allocation to the other Metro projects &#8211; Joka-Esplanade, Garia-Airport and Noapara-Barasat via airport link &#8211; have taken a hit with funding down by Rs 118 crore against last year&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>This year, East-West Metro&#8217;s allocation is Rs 1,100 crore against last year&#8217;s Rs 900 crore. The project has a December 2022 completion target for the entire 16km corridor and currently operates 7km between Sector V and Phoolbagan. When operational till Howrah Maidan, trains will, for the first time in India, travel under a river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The overall budget allocation for the city&#8217;s Metro projects for the 2022-23 fiscal is Rs 2,316.2 crore, slightly more than last year&#8217;s Rs 2,263 crore. But that is primarily on account of a single project: the East-West Metro, which has received an additional Rs 200 crore. Allocation to the other Metro projects &#8211; Joka-Esplanade, Garia-Airport and Noapara-Barasat via airport link &#8211; have taken a hit with funding down by Rs 118 crore against last year&#8217;s. This year, East-West Metro&#8217;s allocation is Rs 1,100 crore against last year&#8217;s Rs 900 crore. The project has a December 2022 completion target for [&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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466272","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=466272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}