{"id":619415,"date":"2023-11-25T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=619415"},"modified":"2023-11-25T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T05:18:15","slug":"highway-ministry-seeks-fresh-cabinet-nod-for-bharatmala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-ministry-seeks-fresh-cabinet-nod-for-bharatmala\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway ministry seeks fresh Cabinet nod for Bharatmala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has approached the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA), seeking approval for revised cost estimate for the Bharatmala Project. The cost of the flagship project has ballooned to Rs 10.6 trillion from Rs 5.35 trillion, when it was approved in October, 2017 <\/p>\n<p>The cost escalation has been due to higher cost of land acquisition and inflated cost of inputs. The delay in approvals is leading to awarding of new projects falling much behind the targets this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has approached the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA), seeking approval for revised cost estimate for the Bharatmala Project. The cost of the flagship project has ballooned to Rs 10.6 trillion from Rs 5.35 trillion, when it was approved in October, 2017 The cost escalation has been due to higher cost of land acquisition and inflated cost of inputs. The delay in approvals is leading to awarding of new projects falling much behind the targets this year.<\/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-619415","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\/619415","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=619415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}