{"id":430398,"date":"2021-08-12T12:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430398"},"modified":"2021-08-12T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:59:22","slug":"nitin-gadkari-pitches-for-setting-up-of-a-dedicated-funding-agency-for-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nitin-gadkari-pitches-for-setting-up-of-a-dedicated-funding-agency-for-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitin Gadkari pitches for setting up of a dedicated funding agency for highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday pitched for the setting up of a dedicated funding agency for the highways sector along the lines of the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) or the Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a virtual event organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the minister also said he would discuss with the Reserve Bank governor on the development of a scheme for using country\u2019s forex reserve for infrastructure development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday pitched for the setting up of a dedicated funding agency for the highways sector along the lines of the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) or the Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC). Speaking at a virtual event organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the minister also said he would discuss with the Reserve Bank governor on the development of a scheme for using country\u2019s forex reserve for infrastructure development.<\/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-430398","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\/430398","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=430398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}