{"id":515430,"date":"2022-08-20T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515430"},"modified":"2022-08-20T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T05:30:28","slug":"gadkari-seeks-amitabh-bachchans-support-for-centres-road-safety-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gadkari-seeks-amitabh-bachchans-support-for-centres-road-safety-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadkari seeks Amitabh Bachchan&#8217;s support for Centre&#8217;s road safety mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, called on megastar Amitabh Bachchan at the latter&#8217;s residence in Mumbai on Thursday and sought his support for the National Road Safety Mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety based on four Es &#8212; education, engineering, enforcement and emergency care.<\/p>\n<p>While the number of accidents have recorded a declining trend in the last few years, government data said that a total of 3,48,279 persons were injured in 3,66,138 road accidents across the country during 2020, leading to 1,31,714 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, called on megastar Amitabh Bachchan at the latter&#8217;s residence in Mumbai on Thursday and sought his support for the National Road Safety Mission. The Ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety based on four Es &#8212; education, engineering, enforcement and emergency care. While the number of accidents have recorded a declining trend in the last few years, government data said that a total of 3,48,279 persons were injured in 3,66,138 road accidents across the country during 2020, leading to 1,31,714 deaths.<\/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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515430","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=515430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}