{"id":422508,"date":"2021-06-25T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=422508"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T07:03:43","slug":"highway-construction-target-raised-manifold-to-construct-40-km-roads-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-construction-target-raised-manifold-to-construct-40-km-roads-per-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway construction target raised manifold; to construct 40 km roads per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic and the elusive private investor, the government has set a ambitious target to build roads worth Rs 15 lakh crore over the next one-two years. This is a stiff rise from Rs 1-1.3 lakh crore per year spent on constructing highways in recent years; while the amount hovered around Rs 1 lakh crore between FY18 and FY20, analysts estimate that around Rs 1.4 lakh crore was spent in the last financial year, given the 30% jump on year in the highway length added in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the ambitious goal, minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that that the process related to land acquisition and environmental clearances were being expedited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the pandemic and the elusive private investor, the government has set a ambitious target to build roads worth Rs 15 lakh crore over the next one-two years. This is a stiff rise from Rs 1-1.3 lakh crore per year spent on constructing highways in recent years; while the amount hovered around Rs 1 lakh crore between FY18 and FY20, analysts estimate that around Rs 1.4 lakh crore was spent in the last financial year, given the 30% jump on year in the highway length added in the year. Announcing the ambitious goal, minister for road transport and highways Nitin [&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-422508","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\/422508","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=422508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}