{"id":408922,"date":"2021-04-03T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408922"},"modified":"2021-04-03T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:30:40","slug":"highways-construction-touches-record-37-km-per-day-union-minister-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highways-construction-touches-record-37-km-per-day-union-minister-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Highways construction touches record 37 km per day: Union minister Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the pace of highways construction in the country has touched a record 37 km per day in financial year 2020-21. He said the achievement was remarkable as it was achieved despite constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21. &#8220;Tremendous progress has been achieved in building national highways across the country&#8230;We have achieved a road building pace of 37 km of highways a day,&#8221; Gadkari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the pace of highways construction in the country has touched a record 37 km per day in financial year 2020-21. He said the achievement was remarkable as it was achieved despite constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21. &#8220;Tremendous progress has been achieved in building national highways across the country&#8230;We have achieved a road building pace of 37 km of highways a day,&#8221; Gadkari said.<\/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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408922","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=408922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}