{"id":579425,"date":"2023-05-26T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=579425"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:16:53","slug":"transport-sector-accounts-for-40-of-pollution-need-greener-fuel-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/transport-sector-accounts-for-40-of-pollution-need-greener-fuel-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport sector accounts for 40% of pollution, need greener fuel: Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transport sector contributes to 40 per cent of the country, Union Minister for Road Transport &amp; Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday.<br \/>\nAddressing the GH2 summit in Mumbai, the minister urged the industry to develop greener fuel alternatives to tackle the problem. He further added that nearly 90 per cent of this contribution comes from the road transport sector. <\/p>\n<p>Citing the case of New Delhi which is grappling with air pollution woes, the minister said, &#8220;We (transport) are responsible for 40 per cent of air pollution in the country&#8230;as the transport minister, actually I am responsible for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transport sector contributes to 40 per cent of the country, Union Minister for Road Transport &amp; Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Addressing the GH2 summit in Mumbai, the minister urged the industry to develop greener fuel alternatives to tackle the problem. He further added that nearly 90 per cent of this contribution comes from the road transport sector. Citing the case of New Delhi which is grappling with air pollution woes, the minister said, &#8220;We (transport) are responsible for 40 per cent of air pollution in the country&#8230;as the transport minister, actually I am responsible for that.&#8221;<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579425","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=579425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}