{"id":465564,"date":"2022-02-02T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T05:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=465564"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T05:58:39","slug":"from-roads-rail-to-ropeways-fm-gives-thrust-to-rational-integration-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/from-roads-rail-to-ropeways-fm-gives-thrust-to-rational-integration-in-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"From roads &amp; rail to ropeways, FM gives thrust to rational integration in budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The ambitious upgrade of infrastructure spanning roads, railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics sectors will be implemented under the framework of the PM GatiShakti to promote synergy between the sectors, which finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman described as the \u201cseven engines\u201d.<br \/>\nReferring to PM GatiShakti Master Plan, which will also cover states\u2019 infrastructure projects, the FM said it will be a \u201ctransformative\u201d approach for economic growth and development leading to huge job opportunities. The programme, which envisages integrated planning, providing last mile connectivity and ultimately to reduce logistics costs, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sitharaman said the programme will focus on planning, innovative financing, use of technology and speedier implementation. \u201cThe touchstone of the Master Plan will be world-class modern infrastructure and logistics synergy among different modes of movement \u2014 both of people and goods \u2014 and location of projects,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The ambitious upgrade of infrastructure spanning roads, railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics sectors will be implemented under the framework of the PM GatiShakti to promote synergy between the sectors, which finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman described as the \u201cseven engines\u201d. Referring to PM GatiShakti Master Plan, which will also cover states\u2019 infrastructure projects, the FM said it will be a \u201ctransformative\u201d approach for economic growth and development leading to huge job opportunities. The programme, which envisages integrated planning, providing last mile connectivity and ultimately to reduce logistics costs, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sitharaman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465564","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}