{"id":561797,"date":"2023-03-13T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561797"},"modified":"2023-03-13T09:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:14:48","slug":"nitin-gadkari-flags-poor-quality-of-dprs-of-road-projects-as-major-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nitin-gadkari-flags-poor-quality-of-dprs-of-road-projects-as-major-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitin Gadkari flags poor quality of DPRs of road projects as major problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday that the bad quality of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) leads to a host of problems including cost escalation in road projects, and he was in the &#8220;mood to take a decision to allow international firms to make them.&#8221; He was speaking at the International Conference on Asian Scenario on Infrastructural Development here.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need to reduce the cost of production in road projects, he said. Expressing disappointment over the quality of DPRs in road construction, the minister said he has &#8220;never seen a perfect DPR&#8221; in his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday that the bad quality of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) leads to a host of problems including cost escalation in road projects, and he was in the &#8220;mood to take a decision to allow international firms to make them.&#8221; He was speaking at the International Conference on Asian Scenario on Infrastructural Development here. There is a need to reduce the cost of production in road projects, he said. Expressing disappointment over the quality of DPRs in road construction, the minister said he has &#8220;never seen a perfect DPR&#8221; in his life.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561797","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=561797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}