{"id":286252,"date":"2018-04-17T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T07:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286252"},"modified":"2018-04-17T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T07:52:41","slug":"286252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/286252\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi-Mumbai expressway to be built within 3 years: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Nitin_Gadkari.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79760 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Nitin_Gadkari-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Nitin_Gadkari\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" data-id=\"79760\" \/><\/a>Giving a huge relief to those who frequently travel between Delhi and Mumbai, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on April 17 informed that a new expressway connecting Delhi and Mumbai will soon be built.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project which will be completed in three years will cost approximately Rs 1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Delhi-Mumbai expressway project would cut down the travel time from 24-hours to only 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A sum of Rs 1 trillion will be spent on this expressway&#8230; Nitin Gadkari<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=nitin+gadkari\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>outlined major initiatives of his ministry for de-congestion of Delhi NCR. A total of 10 projects are underway costing Rs 356 billion,&#8221; Ministry of Road Transport and Highway said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0expressway\u00a0will reportedly begin from Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving a huge relief to those who frequently travel between Delhi and Mumbai, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on April 17 informed that a new expressway connecting Delhi and Mumbai will soon be built. The project which will be completed in three years will cost approximately Rs 1 trillion. The Delhi-Mumbai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":71865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[1235,1236,1237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}