{"id":338900,"date":"2020-02-25T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338900"},"modified":"2020-02-25T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:14:07","slug":"how-an-elevated-stretch-of-nh-44-through-pench-tiger-reserve-earned-a-distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-an-elevated-stretch-of-nh-44-through-pench-tiger-reserve-earned-a-distinction\/","title":{"rendered":"How an elevated stretch of NH 44 through Pench Tiger Reserve earned a distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be a win-win situation for humans and animals. Both have welcomed new elevated stretches of highways on the Seoni (Madhya Pradesh)-Nagpur (Maharashtra) sector of the national highway 44 passing through the Pench Tiger Reserve. While the road has made commute easier for humans, the five underpasses and four minor bridges on this 37-km stretch have also ensured that the movement of animals are not disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The stretches through the forest built last year at a cost of Rs 240 crore also has a 750-m long underpass &#8211; believed to be the world\u2019s longest highway underpass built exclusively for wild animals. Between March and December, camera traps have captured 5,450 images of tigers, leopards, wild dogs, chitals, Indian bisons, wild pigs, jungle cats and porcupines, among others, using the underpasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be a win-win situation for humans and animals. Both have welcomed new elevated stretches of highways on the Seoni (Madhya Pradesh)-Nagpur (Maharashtra) sector of the national highway 44 passing through the Pench Tiger Reserve. While the road has made commute easier for humans, the five underpasses and four minor bridges on this 37-km stretch have also ensured that the movement of animals are not disrupted. The stretches through the forest built last year at a cost of Rs 240 crore also has a 750-m long underpass &#8211; believed to be the world\u2019s longest highway underpass built exclusively [&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-338900","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\/338900","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=338900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}