{"id":617632,"date":"2023-11-16T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617632"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T04:23:48","slug":"slow-pace-of-project-awards-seen-to-hit-highway-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/slow-pace-of-project-awards-seen-to-hit-highway-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow pace of project awards seen to hit highway construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slow pace of awarding of highway projects this financial year would impact the pace of construction in 2024-25 and to remedy this situation speedy approval should be given to the revised Bharatmala Project or an alternate programme drawn up, a senior official said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Against the target of 12,500 km for award for this financial year, in the first seven months 2595 km of highways have been contracted. In the same period of last year the award figure stood at 5007 km. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortfall in award this year will reflect in the progress of construction in FY 2024-25,\u201d according to the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slow pace of awarding of highway projects this financial year would impact the pace of construction in 2024-25 and to remedy this situation speedy approval should be given to the revised Bharatmala Project or an alternate programme drawn up, a senior official said Wednesday. Against the target of 12,500 km for award for this financial year, in the first seven months 2595 km of highways have been contracted. In the same period of last year the award figure stood at 5007 km. \u201cShortfall in award this year will reflect in the progress of construction in FY 2024-25,\u201d according to [&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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617632","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=617632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}