{"id":304001,"date":"2019-12-03T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304001"},"modified":"2019-12-03T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:27:09","slug":"to-decongest-roads-in-up-no-new-petrol-pumps-on-highways-main-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/to-decongest-roads-in-up-no-new-petrol-pumps-on-highways-main-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"To decongest roads in UP, no new petrol pumps on highways, main roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No new petrol pumps will be allowed on the highways and main roads in Uttar Pradesh, the state government decided on Tuesday in a move to tackle traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet also took a decision to levy licence fee of Rs 3 lakh for setting up new petrol pumps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From now, new petrol pumps will be set up one km away from highways and main roads and 600 metres from rural roads for which provisions have been made,&#8221; MSME and Investment Minister Sidharth Nath Singh told reporters in the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>The petrol pumps will now be regulated by the Public Works Department (PWD), he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The minimum size of land has also been fixed. For cities, it will be 35&#215;35 sq metres and for hilly regions it will be 20&#215;20 sq metres,&#8221; Singh said adding that the guideline will be applicable to new petrol pumps only.<\/p>\n<p>Singh said the guidelines will help decongest roads and avoid additional pressure on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No new petrol pumps will be allowed on the highways and main roads in Uttar Pradesh, the state government decided on Tuesday in a move to tackle traffic congestion. The cabinet also took a decision to levy licence fee of Rs 3 lakh for setting up new petrol pumps. &#8220;From now, new petrol pumps will be set up one km away from highways and main roads and 600 metres from rural roads for which provisions have been made,&#8221; MSME and Investment Minister Sidharth Nath Singh told reporters in the state capital. The petrol pumps will now be regulated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304001","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}