{"id":304490,"date":"2019-12-06T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304490"},"modified":"2019-12-06T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:13:20","slug":"rs-14000-cr-plan-to-remove-black-spots-from-roads-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rs-14000-cr-plan-to-remove-black-spots-from-roads-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 14,000 cr plan to remove &#8216;black spots&#8217; from roads: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday told Parliament that the government had been working on a Rs 14,000 crore scheme with the assistance of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to remove &#8220;black spots&#8221; &#8211; which are vulnerable to accidents &#8211; from the country&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a query during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, the Minister said as per the scheme, &#8220;black spots&#8221; will be identified on all roads including National Highways, state highways and municipal roads.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said a scheme worth Rs 7,000 crore will receive the World Bank&#8217;s assistance and a similar amount from the Asian Development Bank in view of India having the highest number of deaths in road accidents, compared to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday told Parliament that the government had been working on a Rs 14,000 crore scheme with the assistance of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to remove &#8220;black spots&#8221; &#8211; which are vulnerable to accidents &#8211; from the country&#8217;s roads. Replying to a query during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, the Minister said as per the scheme, &#8220;black spots&#8221; will be identified on all roads including National Highways, state highways and municipal roads. Gadkari said a scheme worth Rs 7,000 crore will receive the World Bank&#8217;s assistance [&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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304490","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=304490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}