{"id":597789,"date":"2023-08-16T10:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597789"},"modified":"2023-08-16T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:15:42","slug":"permanent-bridge-soon-to-link-22-villages-near-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/permanent-bridge-soon-to-link-22-villages-near-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent bridge soon to link 22 villages near Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PILIBHIT: In a first since Independence, 22 remote villages along the India-Nepal border in UP&#8217;s Pilibhit district will benefit from a permanent bridge to be is built over the Sharda river. For decades, they&#8217;ve lived in hardship due to lack of proper connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, a plan has been sanctioned by state authorities to build a concrete bridge &#8211; 3.2km long and 7.5m wide. It is estimated to cost Rs 314 crore and may be ready in a couple of years. <\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Bareilly division, Saumya Agarwal, said, &#8220;It will benefit farmers and armed forces to patrol the border areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PILIBHIT: In a first since Independence, 22 remote villages along the India-Nepal border in UP&#8217;s Pilibhit district will benefit from a permanent bridge to be is built over the Sharda river. For decades, they&#8217;ve lived in hardship due to lack of proper connectivity. According to officials, a plan has been sanctioned by state authorities to build a concrete bridge &#8211; 3.2km long and 7.5m wide. It is estimated to cost Rs 314 crore and may be ready in a couple of years. Commissioner of Bareilly division, Saumya Agarwal, said, &#8220;It will benefit farmers and armed forces to patrol the border [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597789","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=597789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}