{"id":344081,"date":"2020-03-30T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T03:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344081"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:04:23","slug":"toll-collection-period-in-contracts-to-be-extended-to-compensate-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/toll-collection-period-in-contracts-to-be-extended-to-compensate-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll collection period in contracts to be extended to compensate operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With toll collection on national highways suspended across the country amid the Covid-19 crisis, the operators will be compensated through extension of their collection period by the same number of days for which the non-tolling is in force. <\/p>\n<p>The government has also invoked the \u201cforce majeure\u201d clause \u2014 the term for an unforeseeable circumstance or incident that prevents someone from fulfilling a contract. It is included in contracts to remove liability for natural and unavoidable catastrophes that interrupt the expected course of events and restrict participants from fulfilling obligations. <\/p>\n<p>The clause, said a National Highways Authority of India official, had been invoked for all such projects, as is allowed in the contracts signed with contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With toll collection on national highways suspended across the country amid the Covid-19 crisis, the operators will be compensated through extension of their collection period by the same number of days for which the non-tolling is in force. The government has also invoked the \u201cforce majeure\u201d clause \u2014 the term for an unforeseeable circumstance or incident that prevents someone from fulfilling a contract. It is included in contracts to remove liability for natural and unavoidable catastrophes that interrupt the expected course of events and restrict participants from fulfilling obligations. The clause, said a National Highways Authority of India official, had [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344081","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=344081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}