{"id":291339,"date":"2019-09-12T07:21:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291339"},"modified":"2019-09-12T07:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:21:45","slug":"highway-development-economically-viable-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-development-economically-viable-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway development economically viable: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said that 4-6-8-laning of highways were \u201ceconomically viable\u201d even after factoring in the huge land acquisition costs, hitting out at critics including from within the government who have questioned the highway development program.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that \u201cstrict action\u201d would be taken against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) official who had leaked a letter written by Prime Minister\u2019s principal secretary Nripendra Misra on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already got a problem because of media and because of the mindset of some government officials. Sometimes because of their attitude, because they don\u2019t seem to understand business\u2026where is the money, so this type of feeling creates problems,\u201d Gadkari told investors at a road show in Mumbai on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said that 4-6-8-laning of highways were \u201ceconomically viable\u201d even after factoring in the huge land acquisition costs, hitting out at critics including from within the government who have questioned the highway development program. He also said that \u201cstrict action\u201d would be taken against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) official who had leaked a letter written by Prime Minister\u2019s principal secretary Nripendra Misra on the issue. \u201cWe have already got a problem because of media and because of the mindset of some government officials. Sometimes because of their attitude, because they don\u2019t [&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-291339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291339","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=291339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}