{"id":550540,"date":"2023-01-28T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550540"},"modified":"2023-01-28T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T07:06:32","slug":"govt-keen-on-white-topping-but-no-concrete-plans-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-keen-on-white-topping-but-no-concrete-plans-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt keen on white-topping, but no concrete plans emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai chairing two different meetings with senior officials in the last two weeks, the state government\u2019s inclination to white-top a fresh set of roads has become evident.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not clear if the government would proceed with already tendered roads or would opt for different ones.<\/p>\n<p>On January 12, a day after the chief minister\u2019s first meeting, the Urban Development Department (UDD) sent a letter to the BBMP\u2019s Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, requesting information about previous tenders for the third phase of white-topping. These tenders were submitted during H D Kumaraswamy\u2019s tenure as chief minister, but the project was not carried out due to paucity of funds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai chairing two different meetings with senior officials in the last two weeks, the state government\u2019s inclination to white-top a fresh set of roads has become evident. But it is not clear if the government would proceed with already tendered roads or would opt for different ones. On January 12, a day after the chief minister\u2019s first meeting, the Urban Development Department (UDD) sent a letter to the BBMP\u2019s Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, requesting information about previous tenders for the third phase of white-topping. These tenders were submitted during H D Kumaraswamy\u2019s tenure as chief [&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-550540","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\/550540","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=550540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}