{"id":395887,"date":"2021-01-18T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395887"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:57:30","slug":"highway-construction-may-surpass-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-construction-may-surpass-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway construction may surpass goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8,000 km of national highways were built from 1 April 2020 to 15 January 2021, an increase of 8% over the same period in the last financial year, the road transport and highways ministry said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The government is hopeful that this pace of work should allow it to surpass the financial year target of 11,000 km by 31 March, despite covid-19 related challenges, the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has created a record by constructing 534 km of national highways in the week commencing 8 January. The government has constructed 8,169 km of national highways from April 2020 to 15 January 2021 in the current financial year 2020-21, with a speed of about 28.16 km per day. During the same period in the last fiscal, 7,573 km roads were constructed, with a speed of 26.11 km per day,&#8221; the government statement noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 8,000 km of national highways were built from 1 April 2020 to 15 January 2021, an increase of 8% over the same period in the last financial year, the road transport and highways ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The government is hopeful that this pace of work should allow it to surpass the financial year target of 11,000 km by 31 March, despite covid-19 related challenges, the ministry added. \u201cThe ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has created a record by constructing 534 km of national highways in the week commencing 8 January. The government [&hellip;]<\/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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395887","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\/395887","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=395887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}