{"id":426972,"date":"2021-07-22T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=426972"},"modified":"2021-07-22T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:24:26","slug":"despite-covid-crisis-india-records-highest-ever-construction-speed-of-national-highways-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-covid-crisis-india-records-highest-ever-construction-speed-of-national-highways-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Covid crisis, India records highest-ever construction speed of National Highways; details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highway Construction in India: Despite the Covid crisis, there has been a massive development in the infra sector. During the Covid-19 restriction period, National Highways\u2019 construction has seen a sharp rise, said Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. In a recent tweet, the Union Minister said that in the financial year 2020-21, the construction of highways has paced to 36.5 km per day, which is the highest ever construction speed of National Highways in the country. According to the minister, a world record has also been created by India by constructing 2.5 kilometres 4 lane concrete road in just a duration of 24 hours and 26 kilometres single lane Bitumen road in just 21 hours time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway Construction in India: Despite the Covid crisis, there has been a massive development in the infra sector. During the Covid-19 restriction period, National Highways\u2019 construction has seen a sharp rise, said Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. In a recent tweet, the Union Minister said that in the financial year 2020-21, the construction of highways has paced to 36.5 km per day, which is the highest ever construction speed of National Highways in the country. According to the minister, a world record has also been created by India by constructing 2.5 kilometres 4 lane concrete road [&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-426972","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\/426972","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=426972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}