{"id":599437,"date":"2023-08-24T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=599437"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:16:38","slug":"chennais-big-ticket-highway-projects-are-stuck-in-red-tape-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennais-big-ticket-highway-projects-are-stuck-in-red-tape-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai&#8217;s big ticket highway projects are stuck in red tape: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>o put an end to inordinate delays, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTh) had launched &#8216; Bharatmala Pariyojana&#8217;, an umbrella programme to develop key economic highway corridors in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Seven years later, an audit of the programme has revealed that expansion work along the three major high-priority highways, connecting Chennai with other Tamil Nadu districts and Karnataka, are still pending. <\/p>\n<p>This includes eight-lane work on Chennai Madurai highway (93 km), Chennai-Bengaluru (158 km) and new Chennai-Salem (277 km) highway projects. &#8220;No timelines were prescribed either for award or for completion of projects falling in any particular priority, rendering the priorities meaningless,&#8221; the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, released last week, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>o put an end to inordinate delays, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTh) had launched &#8216; Bharatmala Pariyojana&#8217;, an umbrella programme to develop key economic highway corridors in the country. Seven years later, an audit of the programme has revealed that expansion work along the three major high-priority highways, connecting Chennai with other Tamil Nadu districts and Karnataka, are still pending. This includes eight-lane work on Chennai Madurai highway (93 km), Chennai-Bengaluru (158 km) and new Chennai-Salem (277 km) highway projects. &#8220;No timelines were prescribed either for award or for completion of projects falling in any particular priority, [&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-599437","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\/599437","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=599437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}