{"id":406679,"date":"2021-03-24T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406679"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:28:48","slug":"morth-exceeds-highway-construction-target-during-fy21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/morth-exceeds-highway-construction-target-during-fy21\/","title":{"rendered":"MoRTH exceeds highway construction target during FY21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has exceeded the target for highway construction for fiscal year 2021 despite the ongoing pandemic that led to a lockdown during the year, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>MoRTH has constructed 12,205.25 km of national highways till 22 March 2021 in the current financial year, clocking a construction of 34 kilometres per day. &#8220;This is also 1,205 km more than the target (11,000 km) fixed for the current fiscal,&#8221; the ministry said in the statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is almost three times the rate of construction of highways of about 12 km per day in 2014-15,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has exceeded the target for highway construction for fiscal year 2021 despite the ongoing pandemic that led to a lockdown during the year, it said in a statement. MoRTH has constructed 12,205.25 km of national highways till 22 March 2021 in the current financial year, clocking a construction of 34 kilometres per day. &#8220;This is also 1,205 km more than the target (11,000 km) fixed for the current fiscal,&#8221; the ministry said in the statement. &#8220;This is almost three times the rate of construction of highways of about 12 km per day [&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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406679","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=406679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}