{"id":622808,"date":"2023-12-16T10:29:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622808"},"modified":"2023-12-16T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T05:28:57","slug":"highways-in-india-9-times-increase-in-budget-allocation-60000-km-new-highways-added-in-last-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highways-in-india-9-times-increase-in-budget-allocation-60000-km-new-highways-added-in-last-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Highways in India: 9 times increase in budget allocation; 60,000 km new highways added in last nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital Expenditure on National Highways has increased more than 4.5 times, from Rs 51,000 crore in 2013-14 to Rs 2.4 lakh crore in 2022-23, according to a written reply to the Lok Sabha shared by the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari during the winter session of the parliament. The minister presented the detailed yearly progress of the national highways developed during the past nine years. <\/p>\n<p>According to the data, about 4,410 km of highways were constructed during 2014-15. These included 2,750 km of 2-lane highways followed by 733 km of 4-lane highways and 278 km of 6\/8 lane highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital Expenditure on National Highways has increased more than 4.5 times, from Rs 51,000 crore in 2013-14 to Rs 2.4 lakh crore in 2022-23, according to a written reply to the Lok Sabha shared by the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari during the winter session of the parliament. The minister presented the detailed yearly progress of the national highways developed during the past nine years. According to the data, about 4,410 km of highways were constructed during 2014-15. These included 2,750 km of 2-lane highways followed by 733 km of 4-lane highways and 278 km of [&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-622808","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\/622808","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=622808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}