{"id":384915,"date":"2020-11-19T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T04:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384915"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T04:41:36","slug":"highway-contract-awarding-gathers-pace-in-current-fiscal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-contract-awarding-gathers-pace-in-current-fiscal\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway contract awarding gathers pace in current fiscal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate at which contracts are being awarded for building national highways has gathered pace, overtaking pre-covid numbers as lockdown restrictions are eased and manpower returns.<\/p>\n<p>The government awarded contracts for 5,697km of highways during April-October, an increase of 1.9 times over the same time a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Highway construction too is gradually gaining momentum and is close to last year\u2019s gains, a senior government official said. As much as 4,628km of roads have been constructed in the seven months of the current financial year, compared with around 5,100km during the same period a year ago, according to the official. The target for the financial year 2020-21 is 11,000km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate at which contracts are being awarded for building national highways has gathered pace, overtaking pre-covid numbers as lockdown restrictions are eased and manpower returns. The government awarded contracts for 5,697km of highways during April-October, an increase of 1.9 times over the same time a year ago. Highway construction too is gradually gaining momentum and is close to last year\u2019s gains, a senior government official said. As much as 4,628km of roads have been constructed in the seven months of the current financial year, compared with around 5,100km during the same period a year ago, according to the official. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384915","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}