{"id":31470,"date":"2015-09-01T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=31470"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:56:28","slug":"transport-ministry-mulling-to-procure-aircraft-for-monitoring-road-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transport-ministry-mulling-to-procure-aircraft-for-monitoring-road-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministry mulling to procure aircraft for monitoring road construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road transport and highways ministry is exploring the option to procure a small fixed-wing aircraft and a chopper through its two agencies &#8211; National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL). <\/p>\n<p>Sources said while the fixed-wing aircraft could be bought by NHAI for its use across the country, NHIDCL could procure the chopper for use in the north-east region. The move comes at a time when the ministry has set higher target for highway construction. So far only one PSU \u2014 Steel Authority of India (SAIL) \u2014 has an aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said that this move will help in better monitoring of ongoing works and also to assess the road condition across the country. &#8220;There is a need to undertake frequent monitoring exercise from the headquarters though there are also regional offices across the country,&#8221; said a ministry official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road transport and highways ministry is exploring the option to procure a small fixed-wing aircraft and a chopper through its two agencies &#8211; National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL). Sources said while the fixed-wing aircraft could be bought by NHAI for its use across the country, NHIDCL could procure the chopper for use in the north-east region. The move comes at a time when the ministry has set higher target for highway construction. So far only one PSU \u2014 Steel Authority of India (SAIL) \u2014 has an aircraft. Officials said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31470","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}