{"id":303364,"date":"2019-11-29T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303364"},"modified":"2019-11-29T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:56:47","slug":"target-to-award-rs-50000-cr-highway-projects-in-next-3-months-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/target-to-award-rs-50000-cr-highway-projects-in-next-3-months-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Target to award Rs 50,000-cr highway projects in next 3 months: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has set a target to award highway projects worth Rs 50,000 crore in the next three months, Parliament was informed on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The projects will cover a length of 4,471 km of highways. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Award of road projects covering a length of 4,471 km with an approximate cost of Rs 50,000 crore has been targeted during next three months,&#8221; Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told Lok Sabha in a written reply. <\/p>\n<p>He said 168 road projects covering length of 3,215 km have been awarded since April 2019 till date. <\/p>\n<p>In reply to another query, Gadkari said currently the National Highways Authority of India is executing more than 400 road projects with cost exceeding Rs 50 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has set a target to award highway projects worth Rs 50,000 crore in the next three months, Parliament was informed on Thursday. The projects will cover a length of 4,471 km of highways. &#8220;Award of road projects covering a length of 4,471 km with an approximate cost of Rs 50,000 crore has been targeted during next three months,&#8221; Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told Lok Sabha in a written reply. He said 168 road projects covering length of 3,215 km have been awarded since April 2019 till date. In reply to another query, Gadkari said currently [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303364","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=303364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}