{"id":465350,"date":"2022-02-01T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465350"},"modified":"2022-02-01T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T06:35:53","slug":"significant-jump-in-construction-of-highways-economic-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/significant-jump-in-construction-of-highways-economic-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant jump in construction of highways: Economic Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terming road infrastructure is vital for the economic development of the country, the Economic Survey on Monday said since 2014 construction of highways has witnessed phenomenal growth in the country. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been a consistent increase in the construction of National Highways\/roads since 2013-14 with 13,327 kms of roads constructed in 2020-21 as compared to 10,237 kms in 2019-20, indicating an increase of 30.2 per cent over the previous year. In 2021-22 (till September), 3,824 kms of the road network was constructed,&#8221; the Survey said. <\/p>\n<p>The significant jump in road construction in 2020-21 was due to the increase in public expenditure by 29.5 per cent as compared to the previous year &#8212; a reflection of the impetus given by the government to a critical sector that generates employment and supports infrastructure during a pandemic year, the Survey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terming road infrastructure is vital for the economic development of the country, the Economic Survey on Monday said since 2014 construction of highways has witnessed phenomenal growth in the country. &#8220;There has been a consistent increase in the construction of National Highways\/roads since 2013-14 with 13,327 kms of roads constructed in 2020-21 as compared to 10,237 kms in 2019-20, indicating an increase of 30.2 per cent over the previous year. In 2021-22 (till September), 3,824 kms of the road network was constructed,&#8221; the Survey said. The significant jump in road construction in 2020-21 was due to the increase in public [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465350","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=465350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}