{"id":338032,"date":"2020-02-19T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T05:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338032"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T05:42:45","slug":"up-budget-ayodhya-airport-gets-%e2%82%b9500-crore-govt-loosens-purse-strings-for-metro-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-budget-ayodhya-airport-gets-%e2%82%b9500-crore-govt-loosens-purse-strings-for-metro-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Budget: Ayodhya airport gets \u20b9500 crore, govt loosens purse strings for metro projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday set aside \u20b9500 crore for an airport in Ayodhya and \u20b9200 crore for the beautification of Varanasi\u2019s Kashi Vishwanath temple in a Budget that is also big on road and metro rail projects. <\/p>\n<p>The Budget, presented in the State Assembly by Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, provides \u20b92,000 crore for the new airport project at Jewar near Delhi. The Kanpur Metro Rail Project gets \u20b9358 crore and \u20b9286 crore has been allocated for the metro rail in Agra. It has earmarked \u20b9200 crore more for metro rail projects in Gorakhpur and other cities. The 2020-21 Budget sets a target for the construction of four lakh houses for weaker sections within a year and lists schemes to help the youth make a living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday set aside \u20b9500 crore for an airport in Ayodhya and \u20b9200 crore for the beautification of Varanasi\u2019s Kashi Vishwanath temple in a Budget that is also big on road and metro rail projects. The Budget, presented in the State Assembly by Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, provides \u20b92,000 crore for the new airport project at Jewar near Delhi. The Kanpur Metro Rail Project gets \u20b9358 crore and \u20b9286 crore has been allocated for the metro rail in Agra. It has earmarked \u20b9200 crore more for metro rail projects in Gorakhpur and other cities. The [&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-338032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338032","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=338032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}