{"id":571337,"date":"2023-04-24T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T03:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=571337"},"modified":"2023-04-24T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:11:40","slug":"nearly-50000-km-of-national-highways-added-in-9-years-shows-govt-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nearly-50000-km-of-national-highways-added-in-9-years-shows-govt-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 50,000 km of national highways added in 9 years, shows govt data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s push for an infrastructure upgrade to boost the economy has led to an unprecedented 50,000 kilometres of National Highways &#8211; the country&#8217;s arteries &#8211; being added in the last 9 years, according to official data.<\/p>\n<p>India had a total of 97,830 km of National Highways in 2014-15 which has been expanded to 145,155 km by March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>From building 12.1 km per day of roads in 2014-15, the nation is seeing 28.6 km of roads being constructed every day in 2021-22, according to the official data.<\/p>\n<p>Roads and highways play a crucial role in a nation&#8217;s economy. Road transport is the basis of not only economic development but also social development, defence sectors, and access to basic things for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s push for an infrastructure upgrade to boost the economy has led to an unprecedented 50,000 kilometres of National Highways &#8211; the country&#8217;s arteries &#8211; being added in the last 9 years, according to official data. India had a total of 97,830 km of National Highways in 2014-15 which has been expanded to 145,155 km by March 2023. From building 12.1 km per day of roads in 2014-15, the nation is seeing 28.6 km of roads being constructed every day in 2021-22, according to the official data. Roads and highways play a crucial role in a nation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571337","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=571337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}