{"id":506736,"date":"2022-07-19T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506736"},"modified":"2022-07-19T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:52:11","slug":"bharatmala-project-sees-costs-almost-double-likely-to-be-completed-six-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bharatmala-project-sees-costs-almost-double-likely-to-be-completed-six-years-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharatmala Project sees costs almost double, likely to be completed six years late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre&#8217;s long in-the-works Bharatmala Project &#8211; an ambitious plan to develop over 30,000 km in national highways &#8211; is seeing time and costs rise, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Icra NSE 1.24 % authored report, the project is likely to be complete in FY28, a six year delay from the original timeline. As it stands, the cost of the project has already risen by 99% to Rs 10.63 lakh crore and is poised to see another 15-20% increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre&#8217;s long in-the-works Bharatmala Project &#8211; an ambitious plan to develop over 30,000 km in national highways &#8211; is seeing time and costs rise, according to a new report. According to the Icra NSE 1.24 % authored report, the project is likely to be complete in FY28, a six year delay from the original timeline. As it stands, the cost of the project has already risen by 99% to Rs 10.63 lakh crore and is poised to see another 15-20% increase.<\/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-506736","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\/506736","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=506736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}