{"id":398378,"date":"2021-02-02T08:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398378"},"modified":"2021-02-02T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:20:23","slug":"budget-8500-km-of-highway-projects-to-be-awarded-in-fy22-says-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-8500-km-of-highway-projects-to-be-awarded-in-fy22-says-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget: 8,500 km of highway projects to be awarded in FY22, says Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing commitment to augment the country&#8217;s infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said projects for building 8,500 km of highways will be awarded by March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While presenting the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament, the finance minister said poll-bound West Bengal will see highway projects worth Rs 25,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To further augment road infrastructure, 8,500 km of road and highway projects will be awarded by March 2022,&#8221; Sitharaman said in her Budget Speech.<\/p>\n<p>She also announced that highway projects worth Rs 65,000 crore will be undertaken in Kerala. Besides, Rs 25,000 crore will also be spent in West Bengal, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expressing commitment to augment the country&#8217;s infrastructure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said projects for building 8,500 km of highways will be awarded by March 2022. While presenting the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament, the finance minister said poll-bound West Bengal will see highway projects worth Rs 25,000 crore. &#8220;To further augment road infrastructure, 8,500 km of road and highway projects will be awarded by March 2022,&#8221; Sitharaman said in her Budget Speech. She also announced that highway projects worth Rs 65,000 crore will be undertaken in Kerala. Besides, Rs 25,000 crore will also be spent in West Bengal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398378","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}