{"id":283690,"date":"2019-07-22T06:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T06:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283690"},"modified":"2019-07-22T06:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T06:35:40","slug":"lic-to-fund-centres-high-profile-highway-project-bharatmala-pariyojana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lic-to-fund-centres-high-profile-highway-project-bharatmala-pariyojana\/","title":{"rendered":"LIC to fund Centre&#8217;s high-profile highway project Bharatmala Pariyojana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Life Insurance Corporation has come to the rescue of the Central government, which has decided to follow the path of fiscal prudence, to fund the government\u2019s high-profile highway project \u2014 Bharatmala Pariyojana \u2014 with huge cost over-runs. LIC has agreed to dole out Rs 1.25 lakh crore by 2024 to fund the projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLIC has offered us Rs 25,000 crore in a year and Rs 1.25 lakh crore in five years. They have agreed in principle. We will rope in these funds in highways construction,\u201d said Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Life Insurance Corporation has come to the rescue of the Central government, which has decided to follow the path of fiscal prudence, to fund the government\u2019s high-profile highway project \u2014 Bharatmala Pariyojana \u2014 with huge cost over-runs. LIC has agreed to dole out Rs 1.25 lakh crore by 2024 to fund the projects. \u201cLIC has offered us Rs 25,000 crore in a year and Rs 1.25 lakh crore in five years. They have agreed in principle. We will rope in these funds in highways construction,\u201d said Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari.<\/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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283690","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=283690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}