{"id":306976,"date":"2019-12-23T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306976"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T07:30:35","slug":"highways-sector-to-see-rs-15-lakh-crore-investments-in-5-years-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highways-sector-to-see-rs-15-lakh-crore-investments-in-5-years-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Highways sector to see Rs 15 lakh crore investments in 5 years: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government&#8217;s endeavour for world-class infrastructure will continue unabated with commitment to pump in another Rs 15 lakh crore in the highways sector in this five-year term, says Nitin Gadkari, the man in charge of India&#8217;s infrastructure.<br \/>\nArmed with the new Motor Vehicles Act, e-tolling and instruments like InvIT, for Road Transport and Highways minister Gadkari &#8220;funds have never been a problem or will be a problem&#8221; when it comes to highways or infrastructure building.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have spent Rs 17 lakh crore in the highways and shipping sectors combined in the last five years&#8230;Coming five years will see infusion of Rs 15 lakh crore in highways sector alone to provide world-class roads including 22 green expressways,&#8221; Gadkari told PTI in an interview here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government&#8217;s endeavour for world-class infrastructure will continue unabated with commitment to pump in another Rs 15 lakh crore in the highways sector in this five-year term, says Nitin Gadkari, the man in charge of India&#8217;s infrastructure. Armed with the new Motor Vehicles Act, e-tolling and instruments like InvIT, for Road Transport and Highways minister Gadkari &#8220;funds have never been a problem or will be a problem&#8221; when it comes to highways or infrastructure building. &#8220;We have spent Rs 17 lakh crore in the highways and shipping sectors combined in the last five years&#8230;Coming five years will see [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306976","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=306976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}