{"id":387785,"date":"2020-12-04T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387785"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:16:27","slug":"highways-on-fast-track-road-projects-worth-rs-25-lakh-crore-to-be-built-details-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highways-on-fast-track-road-projects-worth-rs-25-lakh-crore-to-be-built-details-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Highways on fast-track! Road projects worth Rs 25 lakh crore to be built; details here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple steps have been taken by the Modi government to attract investments in the infrastructure sector, said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari recently. These steps include revising asset monetisation models as well as setting up SPVs for the Delhi-Mumbai corridor project worth Rs 1 lakh crore. Also, Gadkari said that road projects worth Rs 25 lakh crore will be developed as part of the infrastructure building programme of Rs 100 lakh crore, announced by PM Modi. The minister was quoted in a PTI report saying that on Wednesday, he cleared two large highway projects worth Rs 65,000 crore including the Amritsar-Ajmer express highway project worth Rs 35,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>In order to attract more investment in the asset monetisation programme under toll operate transfer, Gadkari said the model has been revised in line with the department of disinvestment model allowing an asset\u2019s realistic price discovery. According to the minister, infrastructure debt funds have been enabled to participate in the asset\u2019s direct financing under monetisation through this route. He further said that many projects have been made available in order to help investors plan their investments. Besides, Gadkari said that for investments in the Delhi-Mumbai corridor, investment trusts and SPVs have been introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple steps have been taken by the Modi government to attract investments in the infrastructure sector, said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari recently. These steps include revising asset monetisation models as well as setting up SPVs for the Delhi-Mumbai corridor project worth Rs 1 lakh crore. Also, Gadkari said that road projects worth Rs 25 lakh crore will be developed as part of the infrastructure building programme of Rs 100 lakh crore, announced by PM Modi. The minister was quoted in a PTI report saying that on Wednesday, he cleared two large highway projects worth Rs 65,000 crore including the Amritsar-Ajmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387785","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}