{"id":379361,"date":"2020-10-20T08:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379361"},"modified":"2020-10-20T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T03:09:45","slug":"india-to-get-177-million-loan-from-adb-for-maharashtra-road-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-get-177-million-loan-from-adb-for-maharashtra-road-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"India to get $177 million loan from ADB for Maharashtra road improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Indian government on Monday signed an agreement for $177 million loan to upgrade 450 kilometres of state highways and major district roads in the state of Maharashtra. <\/p>\n<p>The signatories to the Maharashtra State Road Improvement Project were Sameer Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary (Fund Bank and ADB), Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, who signed for the Government of India, and Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director of ADB&#8217;s India Resident Mission who signed for ADB. <\/p>\n<p>Khare said the project will improve connectivity between rural areas and urban centres in the state, enabling rural communities to better access markets, employment opportunities and services. Improved mobility will expand development and livelihood opportunities outside of the state&#8217;s major urban centres to second-tier cities and towns, thus reducing income disparities, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Indian government on Monday signed an agreement for $177 million loan to upgrade 450 kilometres of state highways and major district roads in the state of Maharashtra. The signatories to the Maharashtra State Road Improvement Project were Sameer Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary (Fund Bank and ADB), Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, who signed for the Government of India, and Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director of ADB&#8217;s India Resident Mission who signed for ADB. Khare said the project will improve connectivity between rural areas and urban centres in the state, enabling [&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-379361","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\/379361","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=379361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}