{"id":338457,"date":"2020-02-21T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338457"},"modified":"2020-02-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:29:00","slug":"india-must-invest-109-bn-to-halve-its-road-fatalities-world-bank-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-must-invest-109-bn-to-halve-its-road-fatalities-world-bank-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India must invest $109 bn to halve its road fatalities: World Bank report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India needs to invest an estimated extra $109 billion in road safety over the next decade to halve its crash fatalities, the World Bank said in a report released on a day when at least 35 people were killed in four separate accidents in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank said such an investment will bring economic benefits equivalent annually to 3.7 per cent of the GDP. The report titled \u201cDelivering Road Safety in India\u201d was released at the \u2018Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety\u2019 in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>It points to the high death rate on India\u2019s roads caused by chronic lack of investment in systemic, targeted, and sustained road safety programmes and identifies relevant investment priorities to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India needs to invest an estimated extra $109 billion in road safety over the next decade to halve its crash fatalities, the World Bank said in a report released on a day when at least 35 people were killed in four separate accidents in the country. The Bank said such an investment will bring economic benefits equivalent annually to 3.7 per cent of the GDP. The report titled \u201cDelivering Road Safety in India\u201d was released at the \u2018Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety\u2019 in Stockholm. It points to the high death rate on India\u2019s roads caused by chronic lack [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338457","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=338457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}