{"id":298716,"date":"2019-10-31T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298716"},"modified":"2019-10-31T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:06:48","slug":"india-to-invest-rs-1-trillion-in-setting-up-100-new-airports-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-invest-rs-1-trillion-in-setting-up-100-new-airports-by-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"India to invest Rs 1 trillion in setting up 100 new airports by 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is planning to start 100 additional airports by 2024, as part of a plan to revive economic growth in Asia\u2019s third-largest economy, according to people with knowledge of the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which includes starting 1,000 new routes connecting smaller towns and villages, was discussed at a meeting last week to review infrastructure needed by 2025, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussion is private. Steps to start a plane-lease financing business in the country was also discussed, they said. <\/p>\n<p>With economic activity at a six-year low and prospects of further slowdown looming, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen to double down on infrastructure projects in a bid to revive growth and achieve a target of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is planning to start 100 additional airports by 2024, as part of a plan to revive economic growth in Asia\u2019s third-largest economy, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The proposal, which includes starting 1,000 new routes connecting smaller towns and villages, was discussed at a meeting last week to review infrastructure needed by 2025, the people said, asking not to be identified as the discussion is private. Steps to start a plane-lease financing business in the country was also discussed, they said. With economic activity at a six-year low and prospects of further slowdown looming, Prime Minister [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298716","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=298716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}