{"id":355143,"date":"2020-06-03T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355143"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:38:53","slug":"delhi-amritsar-travel-to-get-shorter-govt-clears-rs-25k-cr-for-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-amritsar-travel-to-get-shorter-govt-clears-rs-25k-cr-for-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi-Amritsar travel to get shorter: Govt clears Rs 25K cr for expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon the Sikh holy city of Amritsar will be connected with the national capital via a brand new expressway as the Union Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday sanctioned a sum of Rs 25,000 crore to kick-start the ambitious project.<\/p>\n<p>The project, a long standing demand of the Sikh community, will be a greenfield or a fresh contract under the Union Government\u2019s Bharatmala scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Amritsar is famous for the Golden Temple or Harmandir Sahib, the holiest Sikh gurdwara in the country and holds special significance for the community. It is visited by over four million devotees from across the globe every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon the Sikh holy city of Amritsar will be connected with the national capital via a brand new expressway as the Union Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday sanctioned a sum of Rs 25,000 crore to kick-start the ambitious project. The project, a long standing demand of the Sikh community, will be a greenfield or a fresh contract under the Union Government\u2019s Bharatmala scheme. The city of Amritsar is famous for the Golden Temple or Harmandir Sahib, the holiest Sikh gurdwara in the country and holds special significance for the community. It is visited by over four million devotees from [&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-355143","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\/355143","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=355143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}