{"id":294739,"date":"2019-10-01T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294739"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:19:54","slug":"highway-projects-to-boost-connectivity-with-the-national-capital-fuel-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-projects-to-boost-connectivity-with-the-national-capital-fuel-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway projects to boost connectivity with the National Capital, fuel growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, while inaugurating phase 3 of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) on Monday, said projects taken up by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in the past three-four years will serve as a \u201cgrowth engine\u201d for western Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the 82km DME, the NHAI is also taking up construction of 31.2km of a six-lane, access-controlled highway which will connect Akshardham with Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh and is pegged at \u20b92,815 crore. The other project is National Highway-235, which is proposed to connect Bulandshahr, Hapur and Meerut via a six-lane highway.<\/p>\n<p>NHAI officials said with connectivity improving, commuters will be able to save up on time and fuel and reach Delhi within 40-50 minutes from any of these destinations with the help of the new highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, while inaugurating phase 3 of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) on Monday, said projects taken up by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in the past three-four years will serve as a \u201cgrowth engine\u201d for western Uttar Pradesh. Apart from the 82km DME, the NHAI is also taking up construction of 31.2km of a six-lane, access-controlled highway which will connect Akshardham with Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh and is pegged at \u20b92,815 crore. The other project is National Highway-235, which is proposed to connect Bulandshahr, Hapur and Meerut via a six-lane highway. NHAI officials said with [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294739","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=294739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}