{"id":7385,"date":"2020-01-13T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:52:28","slug":"pm-unveiled-multimodal-development-projects-for-kolkata-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pm-unveiled-multimodal-development-projects-for-kolkata-port\/","title":{"rendered":"PM unveiled multimodal development projects for Kolkata Port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister unveiled a plaque at the site of original\nPort Jetties to commemorate 150 years of the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT). It was a\nprivilege to be a part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the KoPT a historic\nsymbol of the country&#8217;s water power. This port has stood witness to many a\nhistorical moment in the country like India getting independence from foreign\nrule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long coast line of India from Gujarat&#8217;s Lothal Port to\nKolkata Port was not only engaged in trade and business but also in spread of\ncivilization and culture across the world. Thirty six hundred projects worth\nmore than Rs 6 lakh crore have been identified under this scheme. Kolkata Port\nis connected to the industrial centers of eastern India due to the construction\nof river waterways. And trade has become easier with countries like Nepal,\nBangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister unveiled a plaque at the site of original Port Jetties to commemorate 150 years of the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT). It was a privilege to be a part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the KoPT a historic symbol of the country&#8217;s water power. This port has stood witness to many a historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,8],"tags":[884],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","category-current-affairs","tag-kolkata-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}