{"id":389173,"date":"2020-12-11T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389173"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:45:10","slug":"highway-projects-worth-rs-30000-crore-underway-in-bihar-transport-minister-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-projects-worth-rs-30000-crore-underway-in-bihar-transport-minister-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway projects worth Rs 30,000 crore underway in Bihar: Transport minister Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Highway projects worth Rs 30,000 crore are underway in Bihar, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. The minister was addressing a virtual event after inaugurating Koilwar bridge over river Sone in Bihar, built at a cost of Rs 266 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The three-lane 1.5 km-long structure is part of a six-lane bridge being built in place of the existing 138-year-old two-lane bridge for both rail and road traffic. The bridge is a major road for transport between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gadkari informed that road works worth Rs 30,000 crore are ongoing in Bihar. A sum of Rs 4,600 crore has been released for compensation against land acquisitions,&#8221; the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Highway projects worth Rs 30,000 crore are underway in Bihar, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. The minister was addressing a virtual event after inaugurating Koilwar bridge over river Sone in Bihar, built at a cost of Rs 266 crore. The three-lane 1.5 km-long structure is part of a six-lane bridge being built in place of the existing 138-year-old two-lane bridge for both rail and road traffic. The bridge is a major road for transport between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. &#8220;Gadkari informed that road works worth Rs 30,000 crore are ongoing in Bihar. A [&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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389173","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=389173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}