{"id":601390,"date":"2023-09-04T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601390"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T04:07:51","slug":"infra-projects-granted-to-bjps-close-friends-cong-targets-govt-on-cag-rpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/infra-projects-granted-to-bjps-close-friends-cong-targets-govt-on-cag-rpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Infra projects granted to BJP&#8217;s close friends: Cong targets govt on CAG rpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Sunday targeted the Modi government over a recent CAG report on Bharatmala project, alleging that infrastructure projects have been granted to &#8220;close friends&#8221; and donors of the BJP and asserted that only a JPC probe can unravel the truth. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Bharatmala Pariyojana is aimed at developing 35,000 km of national highways to make freight movement across the country more efficient. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet, the most remarkable feature of the project has been the efficiency with which costs have been inflated and projects handed over to the Prime Minister&#8217;s close friends and his party&#8217;s electoral bond donors, as shown in a recent CAG report covering the period 2017-21,&#8221; he alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Sunday targeted the Modi government over a recent CAG report on Bharatmala project, alleging that infrastructure projects have been granted to &#8220;close friends&#8221; and donors of the BJP and asserted that only a JPC probe can unravel the truth. In a statement, Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Bharatmala Pariyojana is aimed at developing 35,000 km of national highways to make freight movement across the country more efficient. &#8220;Yet, the most remarkable feature of the project has been the efficiency with which costs have been inflated and projects handed over to the Prime Minister&#8217;s close [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601390","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=601390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}