{"id":405099,"date":"2021-03-16T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405099"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:11:57","slug":"road-projects-worth-rs-7-89-lakh-crore-underway-steps-taken-to-overcome-pandemic-induced-delays-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/road-projects-worth-rs-7-89-lakh-crore-underway-steps-taken-to-overcome-pandemic-induced-delays-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Road projects worth Rs 7.89 lakh crore underway; steps taken to overcome pandemic-induced delays: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highway projects worth Rs 7.89 lakh crore are under construction across the country and a number of steps have been taken to expedite work that was delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic, Parliament was informed on Monday. These 2,084 projects pertain to construction of 63,523 km of national highways in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two thousand eighty four projects on National Highways are under construction in the country as on date. &#8230; Projects are given a time period of 2 to 3 years for completion from the date of commencement,&#8221; Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of these projects for construction of 63,523 km of highways is Rs 7.89 lakh crore, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway projects worth Rs 7.89 lakh crore are under construction across the country and a number of steps have been taken to expedite work that was delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic, Parliament was informed on Monday. These 2,084 projects pertain to construction of 63,523 km of national highways in the country. &#8220;Two thousand eighty four projects on National Highways are under construction in the country as on date. &#8230; Projects are given a time period of 2 to 3 years for completion from the date of commencement,&#8221; Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405099","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}