{"id":381415,"date":"2020-10-31T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381415"},"modified":"2020-10-31T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:56:03","slug":"highway-ministry-asks-agencies-to-focus-on-maintenance-and-repair-of-national-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-ministry-asks-agencies-to-focus-on-maintenance-and-repair-of-national-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway Ministry asks agencies to focus on maintenance and repair of national highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The highways ministry has asked its implementing agencies, National Highways Authority of India and National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation, to strictly follow timelines for transfer of road assets between States and the Centre to ensure there is no neglect in their maintenance and repair. <\/p>\n<p>This comes after union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari expressed concern over the fact that national highways spanning over 10,000 km were in urgent need of maintenance and repair, the lack of which is inviting public criticism. <\/p>\n<p>Gadkari has also pulled up officials for non-performance, which is leading to delays in decision making. At a recent public event, Gadkari said that officials who continue to squat on files and delay projects, should be shown the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The highways ministry has asked its implementing agencies, National Highways Authority of India and National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation, to strictly follow timelines for transfer of road assets between States and the Centre to ensure there is no neglect in their maintenance and repair. This comes after union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari expressed concern over the fact that national highways spanning over 10,000 km were in urgent need of maintenance and repair, the lack of which is inviting public criticism. Gadkari has also pulled up officials for non-performance, which is leading to delays in [&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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381415","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=381415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}