{"id":414188,"date":"2021-05-10T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=414188"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:55:41","slug":"highway-toll-charges-for-tankers-transporting-liquid-medical-oxygen-waived-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-toll-charges-for-tankers-transporting-liquid-medical-oxygen-waived-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway toll charges for tankers transporting liquid medical oxygen waived off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has waived off the toll charges for tankers and containers transporting liquid medical oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>India has a 137,635 km of national highway network. This comes in the backdrop of an acute oxygen availability crisis in the country amid a surge in covid infections, with hospital beds and medicines running out. The situation is alarming with the reported deaths of critically ill covid-19 patients due to low oxygen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo provide uninterrupted passage of tankers and containers carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) across national highways, the user fee for such vehicles at Toll Plazas has been exempted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has waived off the toll charges for tankers and containers transporting liquid medical oxygen. India has a 137,635 km of national highway network. This comes in the backdrop of an acute oxygen availability crisis in the country amid a surge in covid infections, with hospital beds and medicines running out. The situation is alarming with the reported deaths of critically ill covid-19 patients due to low oxygen. \u201cTo provide uninterrupted passage of tankers and containers carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) across national highways, the user fee for such vehicles at Toll [&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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414188","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=414188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}