{"id":432474,"date":"2021-08-27T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432474"},"modified":"2021-08-27T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T06:17:40","slug":"maldives-govt-signs-contract-for-india-funded-500-million-connectivity-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maldives-govt-signs-contract-for-india-funded-500-million-connectivity-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives govt signs contract for India-funded $500 million connectivity project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldives government and an Indian construction firm signed a contract on Thursday for the $500-million Greater Mal\u00e9 Connectivity Project (GMCP), the Indian Ocean archipelago\u2019s largest infrastructure project that is being funded by New Delhi. <\/p>\n<p>The 6.74-km bridge and causeway link will connect the capital of Mal\u00e9 with the islands of Villingli, Gulhifalhu and Thilafushi. It is being funded through a grant of $100 million and a line of credit of $400 million from India, and will boost connectivity between the four islands that account for almost half of the Maldivian population. <\/p>\n<p>Maldives President Ibrahim Solih and foreign minister Abdulla Shahid had sought India\u2019s backing for the project when external affairs minister S Jaishankar visited Mal\u00e9 in September 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maldives government and an Indian construction firm signed a contract on Thursday for the $500-million Greater Mal\u00e9 Connectivity Project (GMCP), the Indian Ocean archipelago\u2019s largest infrastructure project that is being funded by New Delhi. The 6.74-km bridge and causeway link will connect the capital of Mal\u00e9 with the islands of Villingli, Gulhifalhu and Thilafushi. It is being funded through a grant of $100 million and a line of credit of $400 million from India, and will boost connectivity between the four islands that account for almost half of the Maldivian population. Maldives President Ibrahim Solih and foreign minister Abdulla [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432474","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=432474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}