{"id":633586,"date":"2024-02-08T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=633586"},"modified":"2024-02-08T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:17:07","slug":"ministry-asks-nhai-others-to-expedite-pace-of-highway-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ministry-asks-nhai-others-to-expedite-pace-of-highway-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry asks NHAI, others to expedite pace of highway awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As contracting for construction of new highway projects this financial year lags behind targets by a huge margin the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has asked its implementing agencies to improve their progress in awarding of contracts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cImplementing agencies have been advised to expedite pre-construction activities like land acquisition, regulatory clearance for environment, forest, wildlife and no objection certificates from different authorities through frequent and pro-active coordination with the state government and other concerned authorities,\u201d minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said in Rajya Sabha,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As contracting for construction of new highway projects this financial year lags behind targets by a huge margin the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has asked its implementing agencies to improve their progress in awarding of contracts. \u201cImplementing agencies have been advised to expedite pre-construction activities like land acquisition, regulatory clearance for environment, forest, wildlife and no objection certificates from different authorities through frequent and pro-active coordination with the state government and other concerned authorities,\u201d minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said in Rajya Sabha,<\/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-633586","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\/633586","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=633586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}