{"id":281571,"date":"2019-07-11T06:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281571"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:02:35","slug":"government-approves-launch-of-third-phase-of-rural-road-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-approves-launch-of-third-phase-of-rural-road-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Government approves launch of third phase of rural road programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To boost connectivity of villages with hospitals, schools and markets, the Centre Wednesday approved the launch of Phase-3 of its rural road programme to widen and revamp 1.25-lakh km of roads in the country. In a cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the launch of Phase-3 of the Centre&#8217;s flagship rural road scheme Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was approved, the government said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>This phase involves consolidation of 1.25-lakh km of existing rural roads connecting villages to rural agricultural markets, higher secondary schools and hospitals, it stated, adding that plastic waste will also be used during work on these roads. <\/p>\n<p>The duration of this phase will be of five years till 2024-25, the government said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To boost connectivity of villages with hospitals, schools and markets, the Centre Wednesday approved the launch of Phase-3 of its rural road programme to widen and revamp 1.25-lakh km of roads in the country. In a cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the launch of Phase-3 of the Centre&#8217;s flagship rural road scheme Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was approved, the government said in a statement. This phase involves consolidation of 1.25-lakh km of existing rural roads connecting villages to rural agricultural markets, higher secondary schools and hospitals, it stated, adding that plastic waste will also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-281571","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\/281571","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}