{"id":402620,"date":"2021-03-01T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T06:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402620"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:58:43","slug":"highway-construction-on-record-breaking-spree-work-reaches-scorching-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-construction-on-record-breaking-spree-work-reaches-scorching-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway construction on record breaking spree! Work reaches scorching pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic, highway construction in April-January this fiscal rose to 30 km\/day, from 28 km\/day in 2019-20. In the past, it was only in 2018-19 that the pace of building of highways touched the 30 km\/day mark. February-March period of the current fiscal is seen witnessing even speedier construction.<\/p>\n<p>While minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari is confident of achieving 40 km\/day construction pace soon, many stakeholders also share the optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, construction reaches its peak in the January-May period of year. The pace touched a record of 76 km a day in the week commencing January 8, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic, highway construction in April-January this fiscal rose to 30 km\/day, from 28 km\/day in 2019-20. In the past, it was only in 2018-19 that the pace of building of highways touched the 30 km\/day mark. February-March period of the current fiscal is seen witnessing even speedier construction. While minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari is confident of achieving 40 km\/day construction pace soon, many stakeholders also share the optimism. Usually, construction reaches its peak in the January-May period of year. The pace touched a record of 76 km a day in the week commencing January [&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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402620","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=402620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}