{"id":106935,"date":"2017-09-20T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=106935"},"modified":"2017-09-20T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T08:51:21","slug":"nitish-dam-crashes-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/nitish-dam-crashes-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish dam crashes before launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hours before its grand launch by Nitish Kumar, a portion of a 389-crore dam in Bihar crashed during a trial run and left parts of a town in Bhagalpur flooded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Minister was forced to cancel the inauguration today of the Ganga canal project that was completed after a 40-year delay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106943 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bihar-2.jpg\" alt=\"Nitish dam crashes before launch\" width=\"655\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last evening, Mr Kumar&#8217;s office cited &#8220;technical reasons&#8221; for dropping the launch of the Bateshwarsthan Ganga Pump Canal Project, which has been set up to irrigate land in Bihar and neighbouring Jharkhand.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisements in newspapers had announced that Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan would also be present at the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bihar-chief-minister-nitish-kumar_de9ebafe-e2b8-11e5-a1fb-86e627e3731c.jpg\" alt=\"Nitish dam crashes before launch\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wall of the canal collapsed when water from the river Ganga crashed into it after the pump was switched on for a trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The water gushed into Kahalgaon village and inundated areas that are part of a thermal power project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours before its grand launch by Nitish Kumar, a portion of a 389-crore dam in Bihar crashed during a trial run and left parts of a town in Bhagalpur flooded. The Chief Minister was forced to cancel the inauguration today of the Ganga canal project that was completed after a 40-year delay. Last evening, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[54272,54278,54274,54277,3514,54276,28787,23325,54281,54275,5289,54280,49294,54282,54273,54279],"class_list":["post-106935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-389-crore-dam-in-bihar","tag-bateshwarsthan-ganga-pump-canal-project","tag-bhagalpur","tag-cancel-the-inauguration-today","tag-chief-minister","tag-ganga-canal-project","tag-irrigation-minister","tag-jharkhand","tag-kahalgaon-village","tag-left-parts","tag-nitish-kumar","tag-rajiv-ranjan-singh-lallan","tag-river-ganga","tag-thermal-power-project","tag-trial-run","tag-water-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Untitled-2-copy-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}