{"id":587873,"date":"2023-06-28T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=587873"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T07:47:10","slug":"indias-road-network-grew-59-in-9-years-now-second-largest-after-us-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-road-network-grew-59-in-9-years-now-second-largest-after-us-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s road network grew 59% in 9 years, now second largest after US: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s road network grew 59 per cent in the last 9 years to become the second largest in the world after US, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said that the country&#8217;s road infrastructure now stands at 1,45,240 km compared to 91,287 km in 2013-14. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, China used to have the second largest road network in the world. <\/p>\n<p>The road, transport and highways minister was addressing a conference on &#8216;9 years achievements of government&#8217; in the national capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s road network grew 59 per cent in the last 9 years to become the second largest in the world after US, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. Gadkari said that the country&#8217;s road infrastructure now stands at 1,45,240 km compared to 91,287 km in 2013-14. Earlier, China used to have the second largest road network in the world. The road, transport and highways minister was addressing a conference on &#8216;9 years achievements of government&#8217; in the national capital.<\/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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587873","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=587873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}