{"id":509516,"date":"2022-07-28T09:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509516"},"modified":"2022-07-28T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T04:25:46","slug":"e-rickshaw-trials-begin-in-matheran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/e-rickshaw-trials-begin-in-matheran\/","title":{"rendered":"E-rickshaw trials begin in Matheran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days of hand-pulled rickshaws in Matheran are set to come to an end, with the trial of e-rickshaws starting in the hill station on Wednesday. Matheran Municipal Council CEO Surekha Bhange said, \u201cSix companies were chosen to send e-rickshaws for trial, but one did not send the vehicles. Of the five, two could not complete the trial satisfactorily, I have been told. After the e-rickshaw brand is selected, trials will be held for another three months. Then we will allow e-rickshaws to ply after consulting the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, the SC had permitted Maharashtra to introduce eco-friendly e-rickshaw in the Matheran eco-sensitive zone on an experimental basis to check its feasibility to replace the hand-pulled rickshaws plying in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days of hand-pulled rickshaws in Matheran are set to come to an end, with the trial of e-rickshaws starting in the hill station on Wednesday. Matheran Municipal Council CEO Surekha Bhange said, \u201cSix companies were chosen to send e-rickshaws for trial, but one did not send the vehicles. Of the five, two could not complete the trial satisfactorily, I have been told. After the e-rickshaw brand is selected, trials will be held for another three months. Then we will allow e-rickshaws to ply after consulting the Supreme Court.\u201d In May, the SC had permitted Maharashtra to introduce eco-friendly e-rickshaw in [&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-509516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509516","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=509516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}