{"id":558986,"date":"2023-02-28T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=558986"},"modified":"2023-03-04T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:29:36","slug":"norms-rejig-on-cards-to-draw-private-players-to-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/norms-rejig-on-cards-to-draw-private-players-to-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Norms rejig on cards to draw private players to highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering changing the parameters for awarding and implementing highway projects to address the risks faced by concessionaires as well as insulate the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The focus is on project implementation to reduce encumbrances. Various steps have already been taken such as acquiring 90% of the land required and getting environment and forest clearances before awarding a project,&#8221; Alka Upadhyaya, secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering changing the parameters for awarding and implementing highway projects to address the risks faced by concessionaires as well as insulate the Centre. &#8220;The focus is on project implementation to reduce encumbrances. Various steps have already been taken such as acquiring 90% of the land required and getting environment and forest clearances before awarding a project,&#8221; Alka Upadhyaya, secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, told ET.<\/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-558986","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\/558986","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=558986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}