{"id":535296,"date":"2022-11-10T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535296"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T04:45:40","slug":"centre-asks-states-to-remove-encroachments-from-national-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-asks-states-to-remove-encroachments-from-national-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks states to remove encroachments from national highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has asked states to remove encroachments from national highways as it is a matter of grave concern for traffic management and operations and future upgradation projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in a letter to states said the Control of National Highways (Land &amp; Traffic) Act, 2002 has empowered the National Highway (NH) officers to take action against encroachments, but still there are a lot of encroachments on NH land.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been brought to the notice of the ministry that national highways are being encroached upon by dhabas, vegetable sellers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;field units may be adequately sensitised to prevent encroachments on national highways and launch periodical drives to remove all sorts of encroachments from NH land,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has asked states to remove encroachments from national highways as it is a matter of grave concern for traffic management and operations and future upgradation projects. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in a letter to states said the Control of National Highways (Land &amp; Traffic) Act, 2002 has empowered the National Highway (NH) officers to take action against encroachments, but still there are a lot of encroachments on NH land. &#8220;It has been brought to the notice of the ministry that national highways are being encroached upon by dhabas, vegetable sellers, etc. &#8220;&#8230;field units may [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535296","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\/535296","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=535296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}