{"id":466526,"date":"2022-02-05T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466526"},"modified":"2022-02-05T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T07:54:30","slug":"kolkata-east-west-metro-gets-rs-1100-crore-funds-boost-in-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-east-west-metro-gets-rs-1100-crore-funds-boost-in-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: East-West Metro gets Rs 1,100 crore funds boost in 2022-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: East-West Metro\u2019s Rs 1,100 crore allocation in the 2022-23 fiscal is up by 18% compared to last year. The corridor is wrapping up now. By the last quarter of the new fiscal, the entire 16.6-km link, covering Sector V and Howrah Maidan, may be fully operational. <\/p>\n<p>When that happens, a train will go under a river for the first time. For people of the city, from where the country\u2019s first Metro had chugged out 38 years ago, zipping through Sector V-Howrah Maidan in 27 minutes flat will certainly be a fairytale. History will be made as Kolkata is linked with its twin, Howrah, through Metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: East-West Metro\u2019s Rs 1,100 crore allocation in the 2022-23 fiscal is up by 18% compared to last year. The corridor is wrapping up now. By the last quarter of the new fiscal, the entire 16.6-km link, covering Sector V and Howrah Maidan, may be fully operational. When that happens, a train will go under a river for the first time. For people of the city, from where the country\u2019s first Metro had chugged out 38 years ago, zipping through Sector V-Howrah Maidan in 27 minutes flat will certainly be a fairytale. History will be made as Kolkata is linked [&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-466526","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\/466526","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=466526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}