{"id":396162,"date":"2021-01-19T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T05:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396162"},"modified":"2021-01-19T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:17:52","slug":"govt-aims-to-reduce-road-accidents-by-50-before-2025-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-aims-to-reduce-road-accidents-by-50-before-2025-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt aims to reduce road accidents by 50% before 2025: Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government aims to reduce road accidents and deaths by half before 2025, said Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari while inaugurating the first National Road Safety Month on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari also said India has recorded significant drop in road accidents and related deaths in 2020 partly due to the Covid-19-prompted lockdown period. \u201cIndia has seen 26.48% reduction in road accidents and 22% drop in deaths in 2020 against 2019\u2026Covid-19 has contributed to this reduction in accidents and deaths,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill now, we have been observing National Road Safety Week. But from today, we will observe National Road Safety Month,\u201d Gadkari said in his address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government aims to reduce road accidents and deaths by half before 2025, said Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari while inaugurating the first National Road Safety Month on Monday. Gadkari also said India has recorded significant drop in road accidents and related deaths in 2020 partly due to the Covid-19-prompted lockdown period. \u201cIndia has seen 26.48% reduction in road accidents and 22% drop in deaths in 2020 against 2019\u2026Covid-19 has contributed to this reduction in accidents and deaths,\u201d he said. \u201cTill now, we have been observing National Road Safety Week. But from today, we will observe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396162","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}