{"id":500269,"date":"2022-06-23T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500269"},"modified":"2022-06-23T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:44:57","slug":"nh-169-widening-environmentalists-confident-of-saving-at-least-400-trees-from-felling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nh-169-widening-environmentalists-confident-of-saving-at-least-400-trees-from-felling\/","title":{"rendered":"NH-169 widening: Environmentalists confident of saving at least 400 trees from felling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists on Tuesday exuded confidence that at least 400 trees out of the 2,616 trees that were proposed to be felled to facilitate the four-laning of NH-169 from Bikarnakatte to Mijar could be saved. <\/p>\n<p>The Forest Department, along with the National Highway Authority of India officials and environmentalists, conducted a survey on the stretch on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The environmentalists and some local people opposed the felling of trees, while a few, including corporators, demanded that as many trees be saved as possible before taking up the work. <\/p>\n<p>Corporator Shakeela Kava said that people have been inconvenienced by the narrow road for the last 30 years and there is a need to save nature while carrying out development works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists on Tuesday exuded confidence that at least 400 trees out of the 2,616 trees that were proposed to be felled to facilitate the four-laning of NH-169 from Bikarnakatte to Mijar could be saved. The Forest Department, along with the National Highway Authority of India officials and environmentalists, conducted a survey on the stretch on Monday. The environmentalists and some local people opposed the felling of trees, while a few, including corporators, demanded that as many trees be saved as possible before taking up the work. Corporator Shakeela Kava said that people have been inconvenienced by the narrow road for [&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-500269","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\/500269","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=500269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}