{"id":398447,"date":"2021-02-02T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398447"},"modified":"2021-02-02T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:20:57","slug":"budget-2021-8500-km-of-highway-projects-to-be-awarded-in-fy22-rs-25k-cr-earmarked-for-wb-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2021-8500-km-of-highway-projects-to-be-awarded-in-fy22-rs-25k-cr-earmarked-for-wb-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021 | 8,500 km of highway projects to be awarded in FY22; Rs 25K cr earmarked for WB: FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the NDA government giving emphasis on building infrastructure, highways sector got the highest ever outlay of Rs 1.18 lakh crore for 2021-22, with the plan to expedite road building works. <\/p>\n<p>An allocation of Rs 91,823 crore was made to highways for 2020-21, which was revised to Rs 1.01 lakh crore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am&#8230; providing an enhanced outlay of Rs 1,18,101 lakh crore for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, of which Rs 1,08,230 crore is for capital, the highest ever,&#8221; said Sitharaman in her Budget speech while tabling the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament. <\/p>\n<p>The finance minister also announced the construction work for 8 expressways and other roads in 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the NDA government giving emphasis on building infrastructure, highways sector got the highest ever outlay of Rs 1.18 lakh crore for 2021-22, with the plan to expedite road building works. An allocation of Rs 91,823 crore was made to highways for 2020-21, which was revised to Rs 1.01 lakh crore. &#8220;I am&#8230; providing an enhanced outlay of Rs 1,18,101 lakh crore for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, of which Rs 1,08,230 crore is for capital, the highest ever,&#8221; said Sitharaman in her Budget speech while tabling the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament. The finance minister also announced [&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-398447","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\/398447","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=398447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}