{"id":20,"date":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/punjab-announces-%e2%82%b91200-crore-rural-road-and-drainage-programme\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:00:00","slug":"punjab-announces-%e2%82%b91200-crore-rural-road-and-drainage-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Announces \u20b91,200-Crore Rural Road and Drainage Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatehgarh Sahib, Aug 18 \u2014 The Punjab government has approved a two-year programme to rebuild village link roads and storm drainage across roughly 400 villages, with the first tranche of tenders due to open in September.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said priority will go to habitations that have gone longest without maintenance. Ward-level committees will sign off on completion before contractors are paid, a change introduced after complaints about unfinished work in earlier schemes.<\/p>\n<p>District administrations have been asked to submit village lists within three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatehgarh Sahib, Aug 18 \u2014 The Punjab government has approved a two-year programme to rebuild village link roads and storm drainage across roughly 400 villages, with the first tranche of tenders due to open&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalreport.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}