{"id":381237,"date":"2020-10-29T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381237"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T06:29:12","slug":"will-plain-speaking-gadkari-trigger-nhai-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-plain-speaking-gadkari-trigger-nhai-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Will plain-speaking Gadkari trigger NHAI reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari\u2019s caustic public remarks against the \u2018non-performing\u2019 lot among the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) officers at a recent event may have breached the unwritten norm of restraint that the top political executive shows in dealing with the bureaucracy it relies on, but have elicited approving commentary from a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, while inaugurating NHAI\u2019s new office building at Dwarka in New Delhi, which took nine years for completion, through video-conferencing from Nagpur, Gadkari said NHAI had become \u201ca breeding ground for inefficient officials, who are incapable of taking decisions and prefer to refer every matter to committees.\u201d It was time to show the exit door to such \u2018non-performing assets\u2019 who only complicate matters and delay projects by creating obstacles, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari\u2019s caustic public remarks against the \u2018non-performing\u2019 lot among the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) officers at a recent event may have breached the unwritten norm of restraint that the top political executive shows in dealing with the bureaucracy it relies on, but have elicited approving commentary from a wider audience. On Monday, while inaugurating NHAI\u2019s new office building at Dwarka in New Delhi, which took nine years for completion, through video-conferencing from Nagpur, Gadkari said NHAI had become \u201ca breeding ground for inefficient officials, who are incapable of taking decisions and prefer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381237","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}