{"id":310498,"date":"2020-01-15T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310498"},"modified":"2020-01-15T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:14:27","slug":"rs-14000-crore-state-support-plan-to-strengthen-road-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rs-14000-crore-state-support-plan-to-strengthen-road-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 14,000-crore state support plan to strengthen road safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transport ministry has firmed up a Rs 14,000 crore state support programme for strengthening road safety in India, which will be funded by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).<\/p>\n<p>The programme will be driven by a strict incentive-based structure for states delivering on road safety aspects, including reduction in fatalities. Road accidents in India claimed more than 150,000 lives in 2018, a recent government report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are developing an incentive-based mechanism to ensure that states actually work on the ground,\u201d a government official told ET. \u201cIf states do not perform, they will stop receiving grants proposed under the programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>India recorded the highest number of road accident deaths across 199 countries in 2018, according to the World Road Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transport ministry has firmed up a Rs 14,000 crore state support programme for strengthening road safety in India, which will be funded by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The programme will be driven by a strict incentive-based structure for states delivering on road safety aspects, including reduction in fatalities. Road accidents in India claimed more than 150,000 lives in 2018, a recent government report said. \u201cWe are developing an incentive-based mechanism to ensure that states actually work on the ground,\u201d a government official told ET. \u201cIf states do not perform, they will stop receiving grants [&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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310498","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=310498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}