{"id":656605,"date":"2025-12-18T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656605"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:37:02","slug":"govt-aims-to-accelerate-pace-of-highways-construction-to-60-km-day-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-aims-to-accelerate-pace-of-highways-construction-to-60-km-day-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt aims to accelerate pace of highways construction to 60 km\/day: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said the government&#8217;s aim is to accelerate the pace of highway construction to 60 km a day. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Times Network&#8217;s India Economic Conclave 2025, Gadkari said that highway construction in the country has slowed down as no fresh projects are now taken up under the Centre&#8217;s flagship Bharatmala Pariyojana. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our target is to accelerate the pace of highway construction in the country to 60 km per day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said the government&#8217;s aim is to accelerate the pace of highway construction to 60 km a day. Speaking at Times Network&#8217;s India Economic Conclave 2025, Gadkari said that highway construction in the country has slowed down as no fresh projects are now taken up under the Centre&#8217;s flagship Bharatmala Pariyojana. &#8220;Our target is to accelerate the pace of highway construction in the country to 60 km per day,&#8221; he 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-656605","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\/656605","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=656605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}