{"id":395895,"date":"2021-01-18T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395895"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T05:12:53","slug":"highway-construction-in-fy21-could-surpass-last-years-target-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-construction-in-fy21-could-surpass-last-years-target-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway construction in FY21 could surpass last year\u2019s target: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As much as 8,169 km of national highways have been constructed from 1 April 2020 to 15 January 2021 in the current financial year 2020-21, up 8% during the same period a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The government is hopeful that with such pace it should be able to surpass the annual construction target of 11,000 km by 31 March, despite covid-19 related challenges, road transport and highways ministry said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has created a record by constructing 534 km of National Highways (NHs) in the last week commencing 8 January. The government has constructed 8,169 km of National Highways (NHs) from April 2020 to 15 January 2021 in the current financial year 2020-21, i.e. 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; an official statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: As much as 8,169 km of national highways have been constructed from 1 April 2020 to 15 January 2021 in the current financial year 2020-21, up 8% during the same period a year ago. The government is hopeful that with such pace it should be able to surpass the annual construction target of 11,000 km by 31 March, despite covid-19 related challenges, road transport and highways ministry said on Sunday. \u201cThe Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has created a record by constructing 534 km of National Highways (NHs) in the last week commencing 8 January. The [&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-395895","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\/395895","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=395895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}