{"id":598549,"date":"2023-08-19T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598549"},"modified":"2023-08-19T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T07:02:30","slug":"contractors-may-not-get-dues-this-year-development-work-to-be-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/contractors-may-not-get-dues-this-year-development-work-to-be-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractors may not get dues this year; development work to be hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Although civil contractors had given the government an August 30 ultimatum to settle pending bills, the government appears unfazed. <\/p>\n<p>While chief minister Siddaramaiah has insisted contractors would be paid only after verifying claims of work done \u2014 an investigation into this is ongoing \u2014 public works department minister Satish Jarkiholi on Wednesday indicated contractors may have to wait for as much as two years, suggesting the investigation would take time. <\/p>\n<p>The Karnataka State Contractors Association (KSCA) has welcomed the decision to investigate work but warned that payment delays will severely hit development as contractors\u2019 funds are locked up and they cannot take on new work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Although civil contractors had given the government an August 30 ultimatum to settle pending bills, the government appears unfazed. While chief minister Siddaramaiah has insisted contractors would be paid only after verifying claims of work done \u2014 an investigation into this is ongoing \u2014 public works department minister Satish Jarkiholi on Wednesday indicated contractors may have to wait for as much as two years, suggesting the investigation would take time. The Karnataka State Contractors Association (KSCA) has welcomed the decision to investigate work but warned that payment delays will severely hit development as contractors\u2019 funds are locked up and [&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-598549","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\/598549","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=598549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}