{"id":369658,"date":"2020-08-25T08:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369658"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:18:56","slug":"gadkari-calls-for-modernising-public-transport-increasing-use-of-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-calls-for-modernising-public-transport-increasing-use-of-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari calls for modernising public transport, increasing use of biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said there is a need to modernise the public transport fleet and promote use of green fuel like bio-CNG, ethanol, methanol as well as electricity. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) are incurring huge expenditure on conventional fuels, he said while addressing a webinar &#8212; 4th UITP India Bus Seminar. <\/p>\n<p>The minister &#8220;called for moving on to biofuels, CNG and electricity as transportation fuel&#8221;, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>This, he said, will not only save on fuel bill but also contribute to the economy and pollution reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said there is a need to modernise the public transport fleet and promote use of green fuel like bio-CNG, ethanol, methanol as well as electricity. Most of the State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) are incurring huge expenditure on conventional fuels, he said while addressing a webinar &#8212; 4th UITP India Bus Seminar. The minister &#8220;called for moving on to biofuels, CNG and electricity as transportation fuel&#8221;, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement. This, he said, will not only save on fuel bill but also contribute to the economy [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369658","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=369658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}