{"id":454279,"date":"2021-12-06T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454279"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:38:43","slug":"karnataka-preparing-rs-578-crore-road-safety-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-preparing-rs-578-crore-road-safety-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka preparing Rs 578-crore road safety programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Safety Authority is drawing up a Rs 578-crore project for reducing accidents in Karnataka, which topped the list of states with a high number of fatal road accidents in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Karnataka is one of the 14 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, where the road safety improvement programme will be implemented. <\/p>\n<p>The project, spread over the next five years, will focus on 11 major parameters, including driver training, road engineering, vehicle safety, enforcement and post-crash care. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the state government can choose three electives based on specific needs. <\/p>\n<p>Senior officials said the overall expenditure on 14 states was Rs 6,725 crore, which is being distributed as per the particular needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Safety Authority is drawing up a Rs 578-crore project for reducing accidents in Karnataka, which topped the list of states with a high number of fatal road accidents in 2020. Karnataka is one of the 14 states, including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, where the road safety improvement programme will be implemented. The project, spread over the next five years, will focus on 11 major parameters, including driver training, road engineering, vehicle safety, enforcement and post-crash care. In addition, the state government can choose three electives based on specific needs. Senior officials said the overall expenditure on [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454279","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=454279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}