{"id":432600,"date":"2021-08-27T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432600"},"modified":"2021-08-27T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:03:30","slug":"punjab-lost-rs-15000-crore-3-of-its-gdp-due-to-road-accidents-between-2016-19-says-road-research-organisation-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-lost-rs-15000-crore-3-of-its-gdp-due-to-road-accidents-between-2016-19-says-road-research-organisation-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab lost Rs 15000 crore \u2014 3% of its GDP \u2014 due to road accidents between 2016-19, says road research organisation data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 3.3 to 3.5 per cent of all deaths due to road accidents in the country every year between 2016 and 2019 were reported from Punjab. Of these, around 65 per cent of Punjab\u2019s road fatalities were reported from National and State Highways \u2014 both of which make up around 5.64 per cent of the total road length in Punjab. The total monetary loss for Punjab in terms of these road accidents added up to around Rs.15,000 crore \u2014 which roughly works out to 3 per cent of Punjab\u2019s GDP (Rs 5.29 lakh crores). The annual loss on National Highways due to these accidents was calculated at around Rs 5,600 crore, whereas the annual loss on state highways worked up to around Rs 4333 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 3.3 to 3.5 per cent of all deaths due to road accidents in the country every year between 2016 and 2019 were reported from Punjab. Of these, around 65 per cent of Punjab\u2019s road fatalities were reported from National and State Highways \u2014 both of which make up around 5.64 per cent of the total road length in Punjab. The total monetary loss for Punjab in terms of these road accidents added up to around Rs.15,000 crore \u2014 which roughly works out to 3 per cent of Punjab\u2019s GDP (Rs 5.29 lakh crores). The annual loss on National Highways [&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-432600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432600","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=432600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}