{"id":386685,"date":"2020-11-28T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386685"},"modified":"2020-11-28T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:44:16","slug":"htls-2020-no-impact-of-covid-19-on-road-projects-construction-says-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/htls-2020-no-impact-of-covid-19-on-road-projects-construction-says-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"HTLS 2020: \u2018No impact of Covid-19 on road projects, construction,\u2019 says Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister of road transport &amp; highways and MSMEs, Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that there has been no impact of Covid-19 on road construction projects. The minister was speaking on Day 4 of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2020 on Friday in a session moderated by Zakka Jacob, managing editor, CNN-NEWS18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe capacity of the construction equipment manufacturers have increased by 80 per cent, that is almost double,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said that one of the major initiatives has been to improve the situation of the builders and contractors in \u201cthese difficult economic times\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that FASTag will be made mandatory within 2-3 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister of road transport &amp; highways and MSMEs, Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that there has been no impact of Covid-19 on road construction projects. The minister was speaking on Day 4 of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2020 on Friday in a session moderated by Zakka Jacob, managing editor, CNN-NEWS18. \u201cThe capacity of the construction equipment manufacturers have increased by 80 per cent, that is almost double,\u201d the minister said. Gadkari said that one of the major initiatives has been to improve the situation of the builders and contractors in \u201cthese difficult economic times\u201d. He also said that [&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-386685","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\/386685","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=386685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}