{"id":289937,"date":"2019-09-02T05:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289937"},"modified":"2019-09-02T05:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T05:51:13","slug":"road-works-at-risk-as-pmo-differs-with-nhai-on-path-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/road-works-at-risk-as-pmo-differs-with-nhai-on-path-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Road works at risk as PMO differs with NHAI on path ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a fortnight ago, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) ticked off the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for reckless speeding. In a letter, the PMO outlined suggestions for NHAI under three broad heads: reorganize portfolio, check commercial viability of projects and monetize assets.<\/p>\n<p>The moot question is whether implementing the suggestions will stall the road development plans of the Narendra Modi government.<\/p>\n<p>Already, after a robust FY19\u2014the year preceding general elections\u2014the pace of activity has slowed down. Year till date in FY20, a mere 500km of road projects have been awarded, raising doubts about NHAI\u2019s ability to fulfil the targeted 7,000-8,000km for the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a fortnight ago, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) ticked off the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for reckless speeding. In a letter, the PMO outlined suggestions for NHAI under three broad heads: reorganize portfolio, check commercial viability of projects and monetize assets. The moot question is whether implementing the suggestions will stall the road development plans of the Narendra Modi government. Already, after a robust FY19\u2014the year preceding general elections\u2014the pace of activity has slowed down. Year till date in FY20, a mere 500km of road projects have been awarded, raising doubts about NHAI\u2019s ability to fulfil the [&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-289937","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\/289937","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=289937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}