{"id":310641,"date":"2020-01-16T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310641"},"modified":"2020-01-16T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:12:46","slug":"budget-2020-road-ministry-seeks-higher-budget-allocation-for-fy21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2020-road-ministry-seeks-higher-budget-allocation-for-fy21\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2020: Road ministry seeks higher budget allocation for FY21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Road Transport and Highways ministry has sought a hike in budgetary allocation by \u20b98,000-10,000 crore for the financial year 2020-21, a senior government official said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect a hike in budgetary allocation by \u20b98,000-10,000 crore in the upcoming financial year. But we do have enough funds and we have received funds from banks also this year,&#8221; a senior government official said. Union Budget will be presented on 1 February. <\/p>\n<p>Higher budget allocation towards building roads and highways is an indication of the government\u2019s focus on infrastructure creations, which is expected to have a multiplier effect on the country\u2019s economic growth which has hit a six-year low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Road Transport and Highways ministry has sought a hike in budgetary allocation by \u20b98,000-10,000 crore for the financial year 2020-21, a senior government official said on Wednesday. \u201cWe expect a hike in budgetary allocation by \u20b98,000-10,000 crore in the upcoming financial year. But we do have enough funds and we have received funds from banks also this year,&#8221; a senior government official said. Union Budget will be presented on 1 February. Higher budget allocation towards building roads and highways is an indication of the government\u2019s focus on infrastructure creations, which is expected to have a multiplier effect [&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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310641","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=310641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}