{"id":389416,"date":"2020-12-14T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389416"},"modified":"2020-12-14T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T07:04:52","slug":"modi-government-notifies-vgf-scheme-to-boost-indias-infrastructure-projects-check-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modi-government-notifies-vgf-scheme-to-boost-indias-infrastructure-projects-check-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi government notifies VGF scheme, to boost India\u2019s infrastructure projects; Check details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s infra sector to get a boost! The Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme has been notified by the Finance Ministry under which infrastructure projects would be selected for financial support. As per the VGF scheme notified by the Finance Ministry, the Empowered Committee (EC) headed by the economic affairs secretary will sanction funding up to an amount of Rs 200 crore, while projects requiring over Rs 200 crore would be approved by the Empowered Committee with Finance Minister\u2019s approval, according to a PTI report. The other members of the Empowered Committee would be CEO of NITI Aayog, expenditure secretary, line ministry\u2019s secretary dealing with the subject as well as joint secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs as member secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s infra sector to get a boost! The Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme has been notified by the Finance Ministry under which infrastructure projects would be selected for financial support. As per the VGF scheme notified by the Finance Ministry, the Empowered Committee (EC) headed by the economic affairs secretary will sanction funding up to an amount of Rs 200 crore, while projects requiring over Rs 200 crore would be approved by the Empowered Committee with Finance Minister\u2019s approval, according to a PTI report. The other members of the Empowered Committee would be CEO of NITI Aayog, expenditure secretary, line [&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-389416","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\/389416","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=389416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}