{"id":483001,"date":"2022-04-07T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T05:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=483001"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T05:28:05","slug":"highway-construction-falls-20-on-year-in-fy22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-construction-falls-20-on-year-in-fy22\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway construction falls 20% on year in FY22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highway construction fell by a fifth on year in 2021-22 at 29 km per day. The construction was far less than 40 km\/day target set at the beginning of last fiscal. The achievement was also lower than the revised target of 33 km\/day for the fiscal and 36.5 km a day achieved in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>While highways have been one segment that has consistently been weathering the broader economy\u2019s travails and even the pandemic shock in 2020-21, the fall in the pace of average daily construction in 2021-22 is mainly due to protracted rains and multiple cyclones that affected construction work in several southern states, analysts said. The second wave of the pandemic also hit construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway construction fell by a fifth on year in 2021-22 at 29 km per day. The construction was far less than 40 km\/day target set at the beginning of last fiscal. The achievement was also lower than the revised target of 33 km\/day for the fiscal and 36.5 km a day achieved in 2020-21. While highways have been one segment that has consistently been weathering the broader economy\u2019s travails and even the pandemic shock in 2020-21, the fall in the pace of average daily construction in 2021-22 is mainly due to protracted rains and multiple cyclones that affected construction work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483001","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}