{"id":473337,"date":"2022-03-05T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T05:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473337"},"modified":"2022-03-05T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T06:20:01","slug":"funds-to-highways-rural-roads-new-rail-lines-to-gather-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/funds-to-highways-rural-roads-new-rail-lines-to-gather-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Funds to highways, rural roads; new rail lines to gather pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s sole focus in the transport sector seems to be on the roads as huge allocations have been made for developing rural roads and highways while promising to take up some of the long-pending railway projects. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Action has been taken to develop a total 2,275 km long state highway under the State Highway Development Programme phase-4, stage-2 at a cost of Rs 3,500 crore,&#8221; the budget said.<\/p>\n<p>It also approved a project to improve rural roads at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore and Rs 300 crore has been earmarked for improving roads damaged during the rainy season. <\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister has allocated Rs 440 crore for asphalting 1,008 km of state highway whose lifespan has ended and promised to reconstruct 55 major bridges and build 20 new bridges under or above the railway lines to avoid highway congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s sole focus in the transport sector seems to be on the roads as huge allocations have been made for developing rural roads and highways while promising to take up some of the long-pending railway projects. &#8220;Action has been taken to develop a total 2,275 km long state highway under the State Highway Development Programme phase-4, stage-2 at a cost of Rs 3,500 crore,&#8221; the budget said. It also approved a project to improve rural roads at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore and Rs 300 crore has been earmarked for improving roads damaged during the rainy season. The [&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-473337","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\/473337","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=473337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}