{"id":368401,"date":"2020-08-18T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T06:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368401"},"modified":"2020-08-18T12:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T06:56:37","slug":"digha-gopalpur-highway-to-be-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/digha-gopalpur-highway-to-be-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digha-Gopalpur highway to be game-changer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said the 451-km-long Digha-Gopalpur coastal highway would be a game-changer in transforming the fortunes of coastal Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>The coastal highway would also act as an economic corridor for the transport of agricultural and pisciculture produce to Paradip and Dhamra ports and also play an important role in the movement of supplies during natural disasters such as cyclones and floods, said Pradhan.<\/p>\n<p>He said that maintaining the ecological and environmental sanctity of the region, the coastal area would also emerge as one of India\u2019s prime tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, last year, the State Government had given its nod to the Rs 7,500-crore coastal highway project that will link Gopalpur in Odisha and Digha in West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said the 451-km-long Digha-Gopalpur coastal highway would be a game-changer in transforming the fortunes of coastal Odisha. The coastal highway would also act as an economic corridor for the transport of agricultural and pisciculture produce to Paradip and Dhamra ports and also play an important role in the movement of supplies during natural disasters such as cyclones and floods, said Pradhan. He said that maintaining the ecological and environmental sanctity of the region, the coastal area would also emerge as one of India\u2019s prime tourist attractions. Notably, last year, the State Government had given [&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":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368401","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=368401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}