{"id":419690,"date":"2021-06-10T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T06:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419690"},"modified":"2021-06-10T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T06:53:50","slug":"highway-constructions-pace-bulldozes-pandemic-barriers-sets-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-constructions-pace-bulldozes-pandemic-barriers-sets-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway construction\u2019s pace bulldozes pandemic barriers! Sets new record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic-induced lockdown and restrictions on mobility in large parts of the country, highway construction grew by 74% on year in April-May of the current financial year to 1,470 km or 24.1 km\/day. Of course, the sharp year-on-year growth is on a low base (14.1 km\/day in April-May 2021), but even in comparison to April-May 2020 (28.2 km\/day), the performances of state-sector highway builders were creditable in the first two months of the current fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>The latest highway construction signals that the construction sector of the economy, which posted a recovery with 14.5% growth in gross value added (GVA) in Q4FY21, may somewhat retain the momentum in Q1 this fiscal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic-induced lockdown and restrictions on mobility in large parts of the country, highway construction grew by 74% on year in April-May of the current financial year to 1,470 km or 24.1 km\/day. Of course, the sharp year-on-year growth is on a low base (14.1 km\/day in April-May 2021), but even in comparison to April-May 2020 (28.2 km\/day), the performances of state-sector highway builders were creditable in the first two months of the current fiscal. The latest highway construction signals that the construction sector of the economy, which posted a recovery with 14.5% growth in gross value added (GVA) [&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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419690","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\/419690","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=419690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}