{"id":436693,"date":"2021-09-18T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T03:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436693"},"modified":"2021-09-18T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T03:38:11","slug":"india-to-have-worlds-largest-expressway-by-march-2022-says-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-have-worlds-largest-expressway-by-march-2022-says-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"India to have world&#8217;s largest expressway by March 2022, says Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari on Friday announced that the government is constructing the world&#8217;s longest highway, that is, Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Gadkari said, &#8220;The Expressway will be 1,380 km long and will go up to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), But now, we are also planning to take it up to Nariman Point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the project will get over by March 2022 and India will have world&#8217;s largest expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it used to take around 48 hours to cover the distance between Mumbai and Delhi by truck and 24-26 hours by car. But now, it will only take approximately 18-20 hours to cover the distance between Delhi and Mumbai by truck and 12-13 hours by car, Gadkari added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari on Friday announced that the government is constructing the world&#8217;s longest highway, that is, Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway. Speaking at the event, Gadkari said, &#8220;The Expressway will be 1,380 km long and will go up to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), But now, we are also planning to take it up to Nariman Point.&#8221; According to him, the project will get over by March 2022 and India will have world&#8217;s largest expressway. Earlier, it used to take around 48 hours to cover the distance between Mumbai and Delhi by truck and 24-26 [&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-436693","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\/436693","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=436693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}