{"id":277324,"date":"2019-06-03T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T06:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277324"},"modified":"2019-06-03T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:26:41","slug":"coal-town-hacks-green-for-more-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-town-hacks-green-for-more-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal town hacks green for more cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of trees have been felled for widening Dhanbad\u2019s roads in a classic case of development clashing with the environment, and work on planting trees as replacement has been lagging. <\/p>\n<p>Sample this: 2,063 trees have been chopped for the ongoing work of making the 32.75km Govindpur-Mahuda road a four-lane one. A total of 3,142 trees will be felled by the time the Rs 180-crore state highway authority project, which began in September 2017 and is being executed by Ranchi-based Ram Kripal Singh Construction Pvt Ltd, is completed. <\/p>\n<p>Around 5,088 trees are to be felled to make the 20km stretch from Kako Math in Katras to the Gol Building in Dhanbad an eight-lane one. Work on the Rs 416-crore, World Bunk-funded state highway authority project began this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of trees have been felled for widening Dhanbad\u2019s roads in a classic case of development clashing with the environment, and work on planting trees as replacement has been lagging. Sample this: 2,063 trees have been chopped for the ongoing work of making the 32.75km Govindpur-Mahuda road a four-lane one. A total of 3,142 trees will be felled by the time the Rs 180-crore state highway authority project, which began in September 2017 and is being executed by Ranchi-based Ram Kripal Singh Construction Pvt Ltd, is completed. Around 5,088 trees are to be felled to make the 20km stretch from [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277324","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=277324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}