{"id":280619,"date":"2019-07-06T05:36:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280619"},"modified":"2019-07-06T05:36:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:36:46","slug":"budget-wants-nhai-to-build-more-roads-but-look-elsewhere-for-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-wants-nhai-to-build-more-roads-but-look-elsewhere-for-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget wants NHAI to build more roads, but look elsewhere for funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Physical connectivity \u2013 moving goods and people by roads, rail and air cheaply and efficiently \u2013 was the big thrust of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s maiden budget speech, in which she mentioned the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, industrial corridors, dedicated freight corridors, the Bhartamala and Sagarmala projects, Jal Marg Vikas (for capacity augmentation of navigation on national waterways) and UDAN (to encourage domestic air travel) schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers bear out the government\u2019s intentions, with its reiteration to spend \u20b9100 lakh crore in infrastructure over the next five years. In her speech, Sitharaman said that the government will carry out a comprehensive restructuring of National Highway Programme \u201cto ensure that the National Highway Grid of desirable length and capacity is created using financeable model&#8221;. The second phase of Bharatmala will focus on helping states develop state road networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Physical connectivity \u2013 moving goods and people by roads, rail and air cheaply and efficiently \u2013 was the big thrust of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s maiden budget speech, in which she mentioned the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, industrial corridors, dedicated freight corridors, the Bhartamala and Sagarmala projects, Jal Marg Vikas (for capacity augmentation of navigation on national waterways) and UDAN (to encourage domestic air travel) schemes. The numbers bear out the government\u2019s intentions, with its reiteration to spend \u20b9100 lakh crore in infrastructure over the next five years. In her speech, Sitharaman said that the government will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280619","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}