{"id":135324,"date":"2015-04-05T01:44:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/04\/05\/acaut-lauds-centres-move-to-terminate-road-work-contract\/"},"modified":"2015-04-05T01:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T01:44:52","slug":"acaut-lauds-centres-move-to-terminate-road-work-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/04\/05\/acaut-lauds-centres-move-to-terminate-road-work-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"ACAUT lauds Centre\u2019s move to terminate road work contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>ACAUT Nagaland has lauded Centre\u2019s decision to terminate the contract awarded to M\/s Maytas-Gayatri, stating that it was a step in the right direction for the highly controversial highway project in Nagaland.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>ACAUT media cell in a press release said it had submitted a representation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit on November 30, demanding that the Centre review the project and institute a CBI probe into the scam in the light of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) damning report specifying the 2-laning project \u201crevised estimate of 200% as shocking.\u201d &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Modi Government which has taken cognizance of the scam was laudable, ACAUT stated. It pointed out that M\/s Maytas-Gayatri was not only \u201cblacklisted but its officials responsible for the embezzlement of funds booked and jailed to set a befitting example; and the same yardstick should be applied to the conniving parties in the State R&amp;B department\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>While requesting MoRTH and government of India to begin the 2-lanning of Longleng-Changtongya, Mon-Tamlu-Merangkong, Phek-Pfutsero and Zunheboto-Chakabama at the earliest, ACAUT said the state should not lose out on development front on account of corrupt officials.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;According to a report last month, the Centre was set to terminate the contract for a bunch of highly controversial highway projects in the country, which saw an over two-fold increase in costs even before a single kilometre was constructed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACAUT Nagaland has lauded Centre\u2019s decision to terminate the contract awarded to M\/s Maytas-Gayatri, stating that it was a step in the right direction for the highly controversial highway project in Nagaland.&nbsp; ACAUT media cell in a press release said it had submitted a representation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}