{"id":652887,"date":"2025-11-18T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652887"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:00:53","slug":"rural-road-scheme-states-push-for-wider-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rural-road-scheme-states-push-for-wider-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural road scheme: States push for wider coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: States have drawn up an ambitious, albeit tentative, list of 49,449 habitations for coverage under the latest phase of the central government&#8217;s flagship rural road scheme until 2028-29, which is almost double the number of habitations that were proposed to be connected with all-weather roads.<\/p>\n<p>This could lead to the government either prolonging the implementation of the fourth phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY-IV) with a larger outlay or introducing a new one upon its expiry in 2028-29 to cover all eligible habitations in hinterlands, people aware of the details said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: States have drawn up an ambitious, albeit tentative, list of 49,449 habitations for coverage under the latest phase of the central government&#8217;s flagship rural road scheme until 2028-29, which is almost double the number of habitations that were proposed to be connected with all-weather roads. This could lead to the government either prolonging the implementation of the fourth phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY-IV) with a larger outlay or introducing a new one upon its expiry in 2028-29 to cover all eligible habitations in hinterlands, people aware of the details said.<\/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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652887","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=652887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}