{"id":550518,"date":"2023-01-28T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550518"},"modified":"2023-01-28T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:54:25","slug":"projects-delayed-costs-go-up-for-delhi-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/projects-delayed-costs-go-up-for-delhi-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects delayed, costs go up for Delhi Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of construction of at least nine projects related to the Delhi Metro\u2019s network has escalated by almost 15% due to alleged delays in environmental clearance, it is learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Critical corridors that are part of Phase-IV of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), government sources said quoting approximations gathered from the DMRC, were running behind schedule for periods between three months to almost three years, pushing the combined cost of their construction up to over Rs 12,048.50 crore from initial estimates of around Rs 10,479.66 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi government did not offer a comment on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of construction of at least nine projects related to the Delhi Metro\u2019s network has escalated by almost 15% due to alleged delays in environmental clearance, it is learnt. Critical corridors that are part of Phase-IV of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), government sources said quoting approximations gathered from the DMRC, were running behind schedule for periods between three months to almost three years, pushing the combined cost of their construction up to over Rs 12,048.50 crore from initial estimates of around Rs 10,479.66 crore. The Delhi government did not offer a comment on the issue.<\/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-550518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550518","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=550518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}