{"id":277550,"date":"2019-06-06T06:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277550"},"modified":"2019-06-06T06:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:17:25","slug":"roads-ministry-to-build-12000-km-highways-this-current-financial-year-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/roads-ministry-to-build-12000-km-highways-this-current-financial-year-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads ministry to build 12,000 km highways this current financial year: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The roads ministry is aiming to build 12,000 km of national highways in the current financial year in a bid to boost the pace of work to 40 km a day, Nitin Gadkari, minister for road transport and highways, said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Gadkari, 10,800 km of highways were built in the last financial year when the pace of work had peaked at 32 km per day. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we will try and make it (total highway construction) 12,000 km,\u201d Gadkari told ET on the sidelines of a press conference on Tuesday. The eventual increase of the daily pace of construction will happen over the next five years, he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The roads ministry is aiming to build 12,000 km of national highways in the current financial year in a bid to boost the pace of work to 40 km a day, Nitin Gadkari, minister for road transport and highways, said. According to Gadkari, 10,800 km of highways were built in the last financial year when the pace of work had peaked at 32 km per day. \u201cThis year, we will try and make it (total highway construction) 12,000 km,\u201d Gadkari told ET on the sidelines of a press conference on Tuesday. The eventual increase of the daily pace [&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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277550","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=277550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}