{"id":381333,"date":"2020-10-31T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T02:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381333"},"modified":"2020-10-31T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:10:24","slug":"nitin-gadkaris-criticism-of-nhai-casts-shadow-on-the-bodys-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nitin-gadkaris-criticism-of-nhai-casts-shadow-on-the-bodys-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitin Gadkari&#8217;s criticism of NHAI casts shadow on the body&#8217;s functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari\u2019s rebuke \u2014 on video \u2014 for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) regarding the delay in completing its new office building has cast a shadow on the functioning of the body.<\/p>\n<p>He was remotely inaugurating the new NHAI building in Dwarka, which took nine years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>His principal peeve was the tardiness in decision making and lack of monitoring. Some officials, however, blamed the contractors for this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen delays happen, officials do not want to take decisions since they fear corruption charges can be levelled against them,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n<p>Former road secretary Vijay Chhibber, who also headed the NHAI for a short while, agreed with Gadkari\u2019s criticism of the authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Nitin Gadkari\u2019s rebuke \u2014 on video \u2014 for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) regarding the delay in completing its new office building has cast a shadow on the functioning of the body. He was remotely inaugurating the new NHAI building in Dwarka, which took nine years to complete. His principal peeve was the tardiness in decision making and lack of monitoring. Some officials, however, blamed the contractors for this. \u201cWhen delays happen, officials do not want to take decisions since they fear corruption charges can be levelled against them,\u201d said an official. Former road secretary Vijay [&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-381333","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\/381333","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=381333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}