{"id":284666,"date":"2019-07-27T05:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T05:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284666"},"modified":"2019-07-27T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T06:00:23","slug":"keralas-infra-funding-arm-to-give-%e2%82%b96000-cr-grant-to-nhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/keralas-infra-funding-arm-to-give-%e2%82%b96000-cr-grant-to-nhai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala\u2019s infra funding arm to give \u20b96,000 cr grant to NHAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), the infrastructure funding arm of the Kerala government, will give \u20b96,000 crore as grant to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to part-finance the four\/six-laning of some 565 km of national highways in the state. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s national highway development agency estimates a funding of \u20b948,000 crore to convert 565 km of two-lane highways into four\/six-lanes, close to half of which would be used to acquire land. Given the high land prices in Kerala, NHAI reckons that it won\u2019t be able to fund the four\/six-laning on its own and had approached the Kerala government asking it to fund one-fourth of the land acquisition cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), the infrastructure funding arm of the Kerala government, will give \u20b96,000 crore as grant to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to part-finance the four\/six-laning of some 565 km of national highways in the state. India\u2019s national highway development agency estimates a funding of \u20b948,000 crore to convert 565 km of two-lane highways into four\/six-lanes, close to half of which would be used to acquire land. Given the high land prices in Kerala, NHAI reckons that it won\u2019t be able to fund the four\/six-laning on its own and had approached the Kerala [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284666","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=284666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}