{"id":438994,"date":"2021-09-29T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438994"},"modified":"2021-09-29T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:06:46","slug":"expect-zojila-tunnel-to-be-ready-before-2024-polls-says-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/expect-zojila-tunnel-to-be-ready-before-2024-polls-says-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect Zojila tunnel to be ready before 2024 polls, says Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE GOVERNMENT wants its showpiece infrastructure project in Kashmir, the Zojila tunnel, to be inaugurated before 2024 general elections, asking the contractor to speed up work by about three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are supposed to complete it by September 2026. I have asked them to finish it by December 2023 so that the Prime Minister can inaugurate it before Republic Day of 2024. It\u2019s a challenge I know, but I\u2019m confident they can do it on time,\u201d Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said during an inspection of the Zojila tunnel\u2019s West portal in Baltal in Kashmir pm Tuesday. \u201cObviously, we would want it to be finished before the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GOVERNMENT wants its showpiece infrastructure project in Kashmir, the Zojila tunnel, to be inaugurated before 2024 general elections, asking the contractor to speed up work by about three years. \u201cThey are supposed to complete it by September 2026. I have asked them to finish it by December 2023 so that the Prime Minister can inaugurate it before Republic Day of 2024. It\u2019s a challenge I know, but I\u2019m confident they can do it on time,\u201d Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said during an inspection of the Zojila tunnel\u2019s West portal in Baltal in Kashmir pm Tuesday. [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438994","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=438994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}