{"id":355056,"date":"2020-06-02T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355056"},"modified":"2020-06-02T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T07:00:21","slug":"need-to-break-infrastructure-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/need-to-break-infrastructure-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to break infrastructure gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the world is busy grappling with the economic damage that the Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that this is an opportunity to build a new India which is more self-reliant, self-assured and a global force to reckon with. <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister has outlined a 4-L strategy which involves addressing the structural bottlenecks in the areas of land, labour, liquidity and laws, all of which have a direct bearing on infrastructure creation. Here are a few thoughts on what specific steps can be taken on each of these areas. <\/p>\n<p>Land rules <\/p>\n<p>Land acquisition has been a major irritant for industrialisation and infrastructure projects. The land market has been most distorted because of archaic legislations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the world is busy grappling with the economic damage that the Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that this is an opportunity to build a new India which is more self-reliant, self-assured and a global force to reckon with. The Prime Minister has outlined a 4-L strategy which involves addressing the structural bottlenecks in the areas of land, labour, liquidity and laws, all of which have a direct bearing on infrastructure creation. Here are a few thoughts on what specific steps can be taken on each of these areas. Land rules Land acquisition has been a [&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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355056","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=355056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}