{"id":398641,"date":"2021-02-02T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398641"},"modified":"2021-02-02T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T07:51:12","slug":"union-budget-2021-22-road-upgrade-funds-too-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/union-budget-2021-22-road-upgrade-funds-too-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget 2021-22: Road upgrade funds \u2018too little\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday allocated Rs 25,000 crore to develop 675km of highways in Bengal, the lowest allotment among the four poll-bound states.<\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman allotted Rs 1.03 lakh crore for 3,500km roads in Tamil Nadu, Rs 65,000 crore for 1,100km in Kerala and Rs 34,000 crore for Assam\u2019s 1,300km.<\/p>\n<p>Senior state government officials said they were surprised at the announcement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if the Centre is trying to develop the state\u2019s road network to serve its political purpose, it should have allotted more funds to Bengal,\u201d said a senior government official, adding that the Centre could have considered their many representations to the transport ministry for road development funds \u201cbefore allotting the lowest amount among four states\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday allocated Rs 25,000 crore to develop 675km of highways in Bengal, the lowest allotment among the four poll-bound states. Sitharaman allotted Rs 1.03 lakh crore for 3,500km roads in Tamil Nadu, Rs 65,000 crore for 1,100km in Kerala and Rs 34,000 crore for Assam\u2019s 1,300km. Senior state government officials said they were surprised at the announcement. \u201cEven if the Centre is trying to develop the state\u2019s road network to serve its political purpose, it should have allotted more funds to Bengal,\u201d said a senior government official, adding that the Centre could have considered [&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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398641","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=398641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}