{"id":633663,"date":"2024-02-08T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T05:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=633663"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T07:23:55","slug":"sanctioned-at-25-cr-cost-over-2k-cr-railways-mismanaged-land-acquisition-for-hajipur-sagauli-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sanctioned-at-25-cr-cost-over-2k-cr-railways-mismanaged-land-acquisition-for-hajipur-sagauli-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctioned at 25 cr, cost over 2K cr: Railways mismanaged land acquisition for Hajipur-Sagauli project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Hajipur-Sagauli New Line project, sanctioned in 2003-04 at an estimated cost of Rs 24.66 crore, registered a huge cost escalation of Rs 2,066.78 crore in January 2019 due to indecisiveness of the Railway Administration, according to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report. <\/p>\n<p>Tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the report titled &#8216;Loss due to indecision of Railway Administration in the matter of land acquisition: East Central Railway&#8217; was based on one of the findings of a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report of 2021. <\/p>\n<p>After carrying out a detailed examination, the PAC observed that the railways&#8217; lack of prudent decision-making and timely payments resulted in avoidable extra expenditure, underscoring the importance of meticulous financial planning and adherence to land acquisition policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Hajipur-Sagauli New Line project, sanctioned in 2003-04 at an estimated cost of Rs 24.66 crore, registered a huge cost escalation of Rs 2,066.78 crore in January 2019 due to indecisiveness of the Railway Administration, according to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report. Tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the report titled &#8216;Loss due to indecision of Railway Administration in the matter of land acquisition: East Central Railway&#8217; was based on one of the findings of a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report of 2021. After carrying out a detailed examination, the PAC observed that the railways&#8217; [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633663","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=633663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}