{"id":292588,"date":"2019-09-19T04:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292588"},"modified":"2019-09-19T04:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T04:14:52","slug":"centre-firms-plan-to-grade-state-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-firms-plan-to-grade-state-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre firms plan to grade state roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is readying a plan to identify state roads that will be declared as national highways as it embarks on a massive upgrade of the road network.<\/p>\n<p>The road transport and highways ministry has drawn up a framework to grade state roads on parameters such as traffic density and proximity to existing national highways. \u201cEvery road will be given a grade as per a fixed criteria and then given approval,\u201d a government official aware of the matter told ET.<\/p>\n<p>Once a state road is declared a national highway, central government departments take over the responsibility of its upkeep and maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is readying a plan to identify state roads that will be declared as national highways as it embarks on a massive upgrade of the road network. The road transport and highways ministry has drawn up a framework to grade state roads on parameters such as traffic density and proximity to existing national highways. \u201cEvery road will be given a grade as per a fixed criteria and then given approval,\u201d a government official aware of the matter told ET. Once a state road is declared a national highway, central government departments take over the responsibility of its [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292588","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=292588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}