{"id":299001,"date":"2019-11-01T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T05:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299001"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:15:00","slug":"policy-push-needed-to-foster-investments-in-infra-sector-says-outgoing-power-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/policy-push-needed-to-foster-investments-in-infra-sector-says-outgoing-power-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy push needed to foster investments in infra sector, says outgoing Power Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slow pace of economic growth stems from a stunted return on investment for large infrastructure projects, according to outgoing Power Secretary SC Garg. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter posted on Twitter, Garg said that there is very little investment taking place currently in India\u2019s infrastructure sector, despite this the huge opportunities in that area. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an enormous unmet demand in housing, roads, airports, railways, energy, irrigation in almost every infrastructure segment. Yet investment in infrastructure has got almost stalled,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses do not see opportunities in several infrastructure sectors for the present,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slow pace of economic growth stems from a stunted return on investment for large infrastructure projects, according to outgoing Power Secretary SC Garg. In a letter posted on Twitter, Garg said that there is very little investment taking place currently in India\u2019s infrastructure sector, despite this the huge opportunities in that area. \u201cThere is an enormous unmet demand in housing, roads, airports, railways, energy, irrigation in almost every infrastructure segment. Yet investment in infrastructure has got almost stalled,\u201d he said. \u201cBusinesses do not see opportunities in several infrastructure sectors for the present,\u201d he said.<\/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-299001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299001","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=299001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}