{"id":292873,"date":"2019-09-20T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292873"},"modified":"2019-09-20T07:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:23:58","slug":"nhai-to-try-out-project-based-funding-for-road-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-to-try-out-project-based-funding-for-road-development\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI to try out project-based funding for road development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will try out project-based funding for building highways under the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route as India\u2019s highway development agency looks at newer ways to take debt off its balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject based financing is something which we are looking at,\u201d Ashish Sharma, Member (Finance), NHAI said at a road show organised by the Authority in Mumbai on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill now, financing for NHAI was at the corporate level; project-based financing is something which we have not tried. Now, for some of the signature projects, we are looking at this mode also. This is one of the key initiatives we are moving forward with,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>NHAI, the world\u2019s second largest highway network manager, is targeting 4,500 kms of highways in FY20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will try out project-based funding for building highways under the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route as India\u2019s highway development agency looks at newer ways to take debt off its balance sheet. \u201cProject based financing is something which we are looking at,\u201d Ashish Sharma, Member (Finance), NHAI said at a road show organised by the Authority in Mumbai on September 9. \u201cTill now, financing for NHAI was at the corporate level; project-based financing is something which we have not tried. Now, for some of the signature projects, we are looking at this mode [&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-292873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292873","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=292873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}