{"id":282149,"date":"2019-07-15T05:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282149"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:53:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:53:32","slug":"inside-modis-game-plan-to-bring-in-investment-for-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/inside-modis-game-plan-to-bring-in-investment-for-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Modi&#8217;s game plan to bring in investment for infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two king-sized numbers stand out in Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s budget: Rs 100 lakh crore and Rs 50 lakh crore. The numbers \u2014 estimates of investments required for infrastructure development across the country and the railways, respectively \u2014 suggest the government is now willing to make enough space for private players who can bring in the money. <\/p>\n<p>The finance minister said on July 5 that Rs 100 lakh crore (roughly $1.45 trillion) was needed for infrastructure development across the country in the next five years. Sitharaman seemed to have chosen the words carefully when she said \u201cthe government has announced its intention to invest\u201d this amount. The government would have to bring in Rs 20 lakh crore a year to meet this target. The Economic Survey, presented a day <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two king-sized numbers stand out in Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s budget: Rs 100 lakh crore and Rs 50 lakh crore. The numbers \u2014 estimates of investments required for infrastructure development across the country and the railways, respectively \u2014 suggest the government is now willing to make enough space for private players who can bring in the money. The finance minister said on July 5 that Rs 100 lakh crore (roughly $1.45 trillion) was needed for infrastructure development across the country in the next five years. Sitharaman seemed to have chosen the words carefully when she said \u201cthe government has announced its intention [&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-282149","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\/282149","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=282149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}