{"id":364667,"date":"2020-07-25T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T05:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364667"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T06:27:04","slug":"campaign-by-villagers-saves-400-year-old-banyan-tree-change-in-sangli-highway-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/campaign-by-villagers-saves-400-year-old-banyan-tree-change-in-sangli-highway-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign by villagers saves 400-year-old banyan tree, change in Sangli highway plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resolve of a village has saved a 400-year-old banyan tree which was to be chopped for a state highway road project in Sangli district. Residents of Bhose village rallied around the tree whose canopy is spread over 400 sq m \u2014 literally and figuratively \u2014 over the past week, garnering attention on social media and eventually bringing it to the notice of authorities to save it from being brought down. <\/p>\n<p>On July 16, state Tourism and Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray wrote a letter to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari requesting for the tree to be saved by making changes to the Ratnagiri-Solapur highway on state highway 166 passing through the village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resolve of a village has saved a 400-year-old banyan tree which was to be chopped for a state highway road project in Sangli district. Residents of Bhose village rallied around the tree whose canopy is spread over 400 sq m \u2014 literally and figuratively \u2014 over the past week, garnering attention on social media and eventually bringing it to the notice of authorities to save it from being brought down. On July 16, state Tourism and Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray wrote a letter to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari requesting for the tree to be [&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-364667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364667","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=364667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}