{"id":494040,"date":"2022-05-27T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T07:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494040"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T07:08:30","slug":"centre-proposes-mandating-use-of-cost-saving-techniques-to-build-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-proposes-mandating-use-of-cost-saving-techniques-to-build-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre proposes mandating use of cost saving techniques to build highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Road transport ministry has proposed mandating highway builders to opt for cost saving value engineering techniques.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been established that the savings realized by undertaking value engineering exercises can be in the order of 10-15 per cent of the cost of the originally designed project,&#8221; a notice from the transport ministry said while citing a World Bank report on the Indian Road Construction Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road transport ministry has proposed mandating highway builders to opt for cost saving value engineering techniques. &#8220;It has been established that the savings realized by undertaking value engineering exercises can be in the order of 10-15 per cent of the cost of the originally designed project,&#8221; a notice from the transport ministry said while citing a World Bank report on the Indian Road Construction Industry.<\/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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494040","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=494040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}