{"id":386389,"date":"2020-11-26T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T06:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386389"},"modified":"2020-11-26T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:11:41","slug":"htls-2020-paving-indias-road-for-improved-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/htls-2020-paving-indias-road-for-improved-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"HTLS 2020: Paving India\u2019s road for improved connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few symbolise the blend of a deep and abiding commitment to a cultural institution \u2014 in this case, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh \u2014 with an equally powerful commitment to improving India\u2019s infrastructure and material prosperity as Nitin Gadkari. It is these twin commitments that define Gadkari\u2019s life. Politically, Gadkari rose in the Bharatiya Janata Party hierarchy, becoming a minister in his home state of Maharashtra, taking over as party chief at a time of crisis after the 2009 polls and winning the Nagpur parliamentary seat \u2014 home to the RSS \u2014 in both 2014 and 2019. In terms of governance, Gadkari first left his stamp as a public works development minister who transformed the Mumbai-Pune expressway and,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few symbolise the blend of a deep and abiding commitment to a cultural institution \u2014 in this case, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh \u2014 with an equally powerful commitment to improving India\u2019s infrastructure and material prosperity as Nitin Gadkari. It is these twin commitments that define Gadkari\u2019s life. Politically, Gadkari rose in the Bharatiya Janata Party hierarchy, becoming a minister in his home state of Maharashtra, taking over as party chief at a time of crisis after the 2009 polls and winning the Nagpur parliamentary seat \u2014 home to the RSS \u2014 in both 2014 and 2019. In terms of governance, [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386389","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=386389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}