{"id":290439,"date":"2019-09-05T04:52:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290439"},"modified":"2019-09-05T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:05:27","slug":"will-not-borrow-if-government-allocation-is-increased-nhai-chairman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-not-borrow-if-government-allocation-is-increased-nhai-chairman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Will not borrow if government allocation is increased: NHAI chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Chairman N N Sinha on Wednesday said that the authority would not go in for borrowing if the government increased its allocation to the road sector. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If more budgetary resources are released, which authority would prefer mobilising funds from the market, &#8221; Sinha said at a CII event here. <\/p>\n<p>He was responding to media reports on the financial stress being faced by NHAI in the last couple of weeks. <\/p>\n<p>On the issue of Rs 3 trillion contingent liability of NHAI, as suggested by some media reports, Sinha said, &#8220;Either people don&#8217;t understand what is contingent liability or the numbers have been over reported.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Chairman N N Sinha on Wednesday said that the authority would not go in for borrowing if the government increased its allocation to the road sector. &#8220;If more budgetary resources are released, which authority would prefer mobilising funds from the market, &#8221; Sinha said at a CII event here. He was responding to media reports on the financial stress being faced by NHAI in the last couple of weeks. On the issue of Rs 3 trillion contingent liability of NHAI, as suggested by some media reports, Sinha said, &#8220;Either people don&#8217;t understand what [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290439","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=290439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}