{"id":489102,"date":"2022-05-04T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489102"},"modified":"2022-05-04T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:20:12","slug":"idukki-rs-13-crore-airstrip-falls-short-hill-to-make-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/idukki-rs-13-crore-airstrip-falls-short-hill-to-make-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Idukki: Rs 13 crore airstrip falls short, hill to make way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The forest department has allowed the NCC directorate and the PWD to change the alignment of the airstrip at Satram in Idukki \u2014 completed at an expense of Rs 13 crore \u2014 and raze a hill adjacent to the runway.<\/p>\n<p>The airstrip was constructed in an ecologically sensitive area, grossly violating the conservation laws. It stands close to the boundary of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, which is one of the 39 serial sites of the Western Ghats, notified as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The forest department has allowed the NCC directorate and the PWD to change the alignment of the airstrip at Satram in Idukki \u2014 completed at an expense of Rs 13 crore \u2014 and raze a hill adjacent to the runway. The airstrip was constructed in an ecologically sensitive area, grossly violating the conservation laws. It stands close to the boundary of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, which is one of the 39 serial sites of the Western Ghats, notified as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489102","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}