{"id":573654,"date":"2023-05-02T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=573654"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T05:53:32","slug":"rural-link-roads-in-bad-shape-for-want-of-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rural-link-roads-in-bad-shape-for-want-of-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural link roads in bad shape for want of funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural link roads in most parts of the state are in a shambles, thanks to the non-release of the Rural Development Fund (RDF) by the Centre, which is used for repair and maintenance of roads.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 6,000 km of rural link roads are dotted with potholes. Harassed commuters in rural areas are pleading with the government to at least start patchwork on these roads, but for want of funds, the government claims it cannot start with the repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre has reportedly held back Rs 3,200 crore as the RDF. The state government has no funds at its disposal to start the repair of these link roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural link roads in most parts of the state are in a shambles, thanks to the non-release of the Rural Development Fund (RDF) by the Centre, which is used for repair and maintenance of roads. Nearly 6,000 km of rural link roads are dotted with potholes. Harassed commuters in rural areas are pleading with the government to at least start patchwork on these roads, but for want of funds, the government claims it cannot start with the repairs. The Centre has reportedly held back Rs 3,200 crore as the RDF. The state government has no funds at its disposal to [&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":[130,225,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573654","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=573654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}