{"id":406861,"date":"2021-03-25T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406861"},"modified":"2021-03-25T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:34:39","slug":"rs-7-trillion-being-spent-on-green-highways-says-union-minister-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rs-7-trillion-being-spent-on-green-highways-says-union-minister-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 7 trillion being spent on green highways, says Union Minister Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is spending Rs 7 lakh crore (Rs 7 trillion) on building green express highways through modern technology which in turn would provide smart transportation and reduce pollution, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, Rs 1 lakh crore Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is likely to be completed within a year while Delhi-Meerut Expressway will be inaugurated in a month or two, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said while addressing a virtual event organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce here. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are spending Rs 7 lakh crore on building green express highways. These&#8230;will reduce air pollution, traffic jam and minimise logistics and transportation cost,&#8221; he said at the National Roads &amp; Highways Summit &#8220;Focus on Green Infrastructure&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is spending Rs 7 lakh crore (Rs 7 trillion) on building green express highways through modern technology which in turn would provide smart transportation and reduce pollution, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. Of these, Rs 1 lakh crore Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is likely to be completed within a year while Delhi-Meerut Expressway will be inaugurated in a month or two, the Road Transport and Highways Minister said while addressing a virtual event organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce here. &#8220;We are spending Rs 7 lakh crore on building green express highways. These&#8230;will reduce air pollution, traffic jam [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406861","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=406861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}