{"id":398443,"date":"2021-02-02T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398443"},"modified":"2021-02-02T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:21:13","slug":"budget-2021-investment-in-highway-construction-encouraging-move-says-savaari-car-rentals-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2021-investment-in-highway-construction-encouraging-move-says-savaari-car-rentals-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021 | Investment in highway construction encouraging move, says Savaari Car Rentals CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hon\u2019ble Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s proposal to augment the road infrastructure by building 8,500 km of highways by the next financial year will ensure better connectivity to smaller towns and villages.<\/p>\n<p>With the radical shift in people\u2019s travel choices this year and the subsequent return of the road trips, investment in highway construction is surely an encouraging move and will provide key support to the travel and tourism sector in the upcoming years.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the introduction of the vehicle scrapping policy in order to phase out the older and unfit vehicles is an excellent initiative. It is not only an environment-friendly move towards creating a clean and green India, but will significantly help vehicle owners by ensuring efficient fuel consumption and low operating costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon\u2019ble Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman\u2019s proposal to augment the road infrastructure by building 8,500 km of highways by the next financial year will ensure better connectivity to smaller towns and villages. With the radical shift in people\u2019s travel choices this year and the subsequent return of the road trips, investment in highway construction is surely an encouraging move and will provide key support to the travel and tourism sector in the upcoming years. Furthermore, the introduction of the vehicle scrapping policy in order to phase out the older and unfit vehicles is an excellent initiative. It is not only an [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398443","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=398443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}