HYDERABAD: Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday laid foundation and inaugurated 14 National Highway (NH) projects spanning 765 km, including NH-163 from Yadadri to Arepalli village in Warangal, across Telangana. These projects entail an investment of Rs 13,169 crore.
\nInteracting over a video interface, Gadkari said, \u201cAlmost all 33 districts in the state today have connectivity with National Highways and Peddapalli will also be connected to the network soon.\u201dTelangana had been granted permission for building 1,918 km roads at a cost of Rs 17,617 crore in the last six years. Of this, 1,782 km length has already been sanctioned at a cost of Rs 15,689 crore , he added. Three major projects were at bidding stage, while another 21 NH works were under various stages of detailed project report preparation. He said 1,076 km roads worth Rs 24,000 crore would be awarded under Bharatmala Phase-I. \u201cAs of now, only 160 hectare of land has been acquired. The land acquisition of 5,627 hectare should be expedited, which has been pending since December 2018,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HYDERABAD: Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday laid foundation and inaugurated 14 National Highway (NH) projects spanning 765 km, including NH-163 from Yadadri to Arepalli village in Warangal, across Telangana. These projects entail an investment of Rs 13,169 crore. Interacting over a video interface, Gadkari said, \u201cAlmost all 33 districts in the state today have connectivity with National Highways and Peddapalli will also be connected to the network soon.\u201dTelangana had been granted permission for building 1,918 km roads at a cost of Rs 17,617 crore in the last six years. Of this, 1,782 km length has already been sanctioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391231","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}