{"id":587735,"date":"2023-06-28T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=587735"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:43:04","slug":"total-length-of-nh-increased-by-59-in-last-nine-years-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/total-length-of-nh-increased-by-59-in-last-nine-years-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Total length of NH increased by 59% in last nine years: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced on Tuesday that the total length of national highways (NH) in the country has increased by approximately 59% in the last nine years, making India the second-largest road network in the world after the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference, Gadkari said, \u201cThe total length of National Highways was 91,287 km in 2013-14, which has increased to 1,45,240 km in 2022-23, marking a rise of more than 59% during this period. Over the past nine years, the length of 4-lane national highways has nearly doubled. In 2013-14, the length of 4-lane NH was 18,371 km, which has now increased to 44,654 km.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced on Tuesday that the total length of national highways (NH) in the country has increased by approximately 59% in the last nine years, making India the second-largest road network in the world after the USA. Speaking at a press conference, Gadkari said, \u201cThe total length of National Highways was 91,287 km in 2013-14, which has increased to 1,45,240 km in 2022-23, marking a rise of more than 59% during this period. Over the past nine years, the length of 4-lane national highways has nearly doubled. In 2013-14, the length of 4-lane [&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":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587735","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=587735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}