{"id":43378,"date":"2015-02-24T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T12:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43378"},"modified":"2015-02-24T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T12:27:53","slug":"govt-lines-up-p1-39-trillion-worth-of-infra-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/24\/govt-lines-up-p1-39-trillion-worth-of-infra-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t lines up P1.39 trillion worth of infra projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40537\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/640px-Makati_skyline_j_0_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40537\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/640px-Makati_skyline_j_0_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Makati City, one of Metro Manila's central business district. j_0_n \/ Flickr.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/640px-Makati_skyline_j_0_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/640px-Makati_skyline_j_0_n.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makati City, one of Metro Manila&#8217;s central business district. j_0_n \/ Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A total of P1.39 trillion ($31.42 billion) worth of infrastructure programs and projects was lined up by the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfrastructure development is critical in the growth and competitiveness of the country and its major sectors,\u201d\u00a0Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan said during the Philippine Infrastructure Development Seminar yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The line-up will include 97 projects of which are bulk, or 81 are critical infrastructure program and projects with a total of\u00a0P1.24 trillion ($28.05 billion).<\/p>\n<p>To complete the line-up, physical framework plans which will cover major areas in the country will be added.<\/p>\n<p>The plans include the\u00a0Roadmap for Transport Infrastructure Development for Metro Manila and Its Surrounding Areas with assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will complete the framework plans for Visayas and Mindanao in the next two years,\u201d Balisacan pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A total of P1.39 trillion ($31.42 billion) worth of infrastructure programs and projects was lined up by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}