{"id":386783,"date":"2020-11-28T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386783"},"modified":"2020-11-28T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T06:16:28","slug":"highway-projects-on-track-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-projects-on-track-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway projects on track: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National highway projects were unimpeded by the outbreak of covid-19 and road contracts were awarded through the course of the pandemic, Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. This, according to him, has helped ease the financial difficulties of developers and contractors by ensuring that work continued smoothly. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a virtual session during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Gadkari said the Modi administration will spend significantly on infrastructure to help the economy recover from the impact of the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter covid, we need to spend more on infrastructure. We are accelerating the process and awarding more roads so it will give a boost to the economy,&#8221; Gadkari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National highway projects were unimpeded by the outbreak of covid-19 and road contracts were awarded through the course of the pandemic, Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. This, according to him, has helped ease the financial difficulties of developers and contractors by ensuring that work continued smoothly. Addressing a virtual session during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Gadkari said the Modi administration will spend significantly on infrastructure to help the economy recover from the impact of the pandemic. \u201cAfter covid, we need to spend more on infrastructure. We are accelerating the process and awarding [&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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386783","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\/386783","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=386783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}