{"id":425311,"date":"2021-07-12T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425311"},"modified":"2021-07-12T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:33:08","slug":"aim-to-construct-60000-km-of-world-class-national-highway-by-2024-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aim-to-construct-60000-km-of-world-class-national-highway-by-2024-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Aim to construct 60,000 km of world-class national highway by 2024: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Transport and Highways Ministry Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that his aim is to construct 60,000 kilometres of the world-class national highway by 2024, at the rate of 40 kilometre per day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 16th annual conference on &#8216;Road Development in India&#8217; Gadkari said, &#8220;My aim is to construct 60,000 km of the world-class national highway by 2024, at the rate of 40 km per day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India is about 63 lakh kilometre of the road network, which is the second-largest in the world. Road infrastructure plays a critical role in the growth of the Indian economy,&#8221; added.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said, &#8220;The government is investing 1.4 trillion dollars (Rs 111 lakh crores) in infrastructure development through National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Transport and Highways Ministry Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that his aim is to construct 60,000 kilometres of the world-class national highway by 2024, at the rate of 40 kilometre per day. Speaking at the 16th annual conference on &#8216;Road Development in India&#8217; Gadkari said, &#8220;My aim is to construct 60,000 km of the world-class national highway by 2024, at the rate of 40 km per day.&#8221; &#8220;India is about 63 lakh kilometre of the road network, which is the second-largest in the world. Road infrastructure plays a critical role in the growth of the Indian economy,&#8221; added. [&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-425311","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\/425311","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=425311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}