{"id":346351,"date":"2020-04-13T09:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346351"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:49:53","slug":"covid-19-impact-centre-set-to-prioritise-road-expansion-over-new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-centre-set-to-prioritise-road-expansion-over-new-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Centre set to prioritise road expansion over new projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government might opt to expand existing roads as it looks to prioritise execution of projects. It is learnt that the government will issue guidelines for commencing work on projects based on certain criteria, like the availability of labour. <\/p>\n<p>Experts feel that though every infrastructure project is a priority, widening and expanding existing roads might get precedence as beginning work on those projects would be easier, considering they would not require large amounts of land to start work. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides the construction of existing roads, the Union government\u2019s flagship Bharatmala scheme needs a lot of catching up in terms of both award and construction,\u201d said Shubham Jain, senior vice-president and group head at ICRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government might opt to expand existing roads as it looks to prioritise execution of projects. It is learnt that the government will issue guidelines for commencing work on projects based on certain criteria, like the availability of labour. Experts feel that though every infrastructure project is a priority, widening and expanding existing roads might get precedence as beginning work on those projects would be easier, considering they would not require large amounts of land to start work. \u201cBesides the construction of existing roads, the Union government\u2019s flagship Bharatmala scheme needs a lot of catching up in terms of [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346351","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=346351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}