{"id":593999,"date":"2023-07-28T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T03:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=593999"},"modified":"2023-07-28T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T04:07:28","slug":"adb-india-sign-295-mn-loan-pact-to-upgrade-state-highways-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/adb-india-sign-295-mn-loan-pact-to-upgrade-state-highways-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB, India sign $295 mn loan pact to upgrade state highways in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the central government on Thursday signed an agreement for a USD 295 million loan to upgrade around 265-kilometre state highways with climate and disaster-resilient design and road safety elements in Bihar.<\/p>\n<p>The project supports the Bihar government programme to upgrade all state highways to standard two-lane widths and improve road safety, ADB said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The improved roads will enhance connectivity in some of Bihar&#8217;s poorest rural districts and promote access to health and education facilities and markets to improve people&#8217;s lives, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the central government on Thursday signed an agreement for a USD 295 million loan to upgrade around 265-kilometre state highways with climate and disaster-resilient design and road safety elements in Bihar. The project supports the Bihar government programme to upgrade all state highways to standard two-lane widths and improve road safety, ADB said in a statement. The improved roads will enhance connectivity in some of Bihar&#8217;s poorest rural districts and promote access to health and education facilities and markets to improve people&#8217;s lives, it added.<\/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-593999","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\/593999","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=593999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}