{"id":401890,"date":"2021-02-24T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401890"},"modified":"2021-02-24T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T06:40:15","slug":"centre-signs-304-million-pact-with-aiib-for-power-transmission-network-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-signs-304-million-pact-with-aiib-for-power-transmission-network-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre signs $304 million pact with AIIB for power transmission network in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday signed an agreement with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for borrowing $304 million (over \u20b92,200 crore) to improve power transmission network in Assam.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official release here, the fund will be utilised for the &#8216;Assam Intra-State Transmission System Enhancement Project&#8217;, aiming to improve reliability, capacity and security of the power transmission network in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The total estimated cost of the project is $365 million, of which $304 million will be financed by the AIIB and rest by the state government, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The loan from the AIIB has a five-year grace period and a maturity of 24 years,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday signed an agreement with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for borrowing $304 million (over \u20b92,200 crore) to improve power transmission network in Assam. According to an official release here, the fund will be utilised for the &#8216;Assam Intra-State Transmission System Enhancement Project&#8217;, aiming to improve reliability, capacity and security of the power transmission network in the state. The total estimated cost of the project is $365 million, of which $304 million will be financed by the AIIB and rest by the state government, it said. &#8220;The loan from the AIIB has a five-year grace period and [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401890","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=401890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}