{"id":306433,"date":"2019-12-20T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306433"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T05:47:04","slug":"kerala-infrastructure-funding-arm-gives-rs-390-cr-to-nhai-for-land-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-infrastructure-funding-arm-gives-rs-390-cr-to-nhai-for-land-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala infrastructure funding arm gives Rs 390 cr to NHAI for land acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), the infrastructure funding arm of the Kerala government, has disbursed Rs 390 crore as the first instalment of a Rs 5,200-crore grant to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to part finance the four\/six-laning of some 565 km of national highways in the state.<\/p>\n<p>This model could also be used by NHAI with other state governments to part-fund the massive highway development programme, to lighten its burden amidst a squeeze in bank funding for infrastructure projects, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s national highway development agency estimates a funding requirement of Rs 48,000 crore to convert 500 km of two-lane highways into four-lanes, close to half of which would be used to acquire land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), the infrastructure funding arm of the Kerala government, has disbursed Rs 390 crore as the first instalment of a Rs 5,200-crore grant to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to part finance the four\/six-laning of some 565 km of national highways in the state. This model could also be used by NHAI with other state governments to part-fund the massive highway development programme, to lighten its burden amidst a squeeze in bank funding for infrastructure projects, sources said. India\u2019s national highway development agency estimates a funding requirement of Rs 48,000 crore to [&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-306433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306433","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=306433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}