{"id":645074,"date":"2025-09-05T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645074"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:11:07","slug":"117cr-to-make-four-nhai-stretches-in-state-zero-fatality-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/117cr-to-make-four-nhai-stretches-in-state-zero-fatality-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"117cr to make four NHAI stretches in state \u2018zero fatality highways\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has sanctioned 117 crore to upgrade four accident-prone stretches in Tamil Nadu as part of its national initiative to develop \u2018zero fatality highways&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the funding of 111 crore has been earmarked for the Madurai\u2013Kayathar section of NH-44, notorious for frequent and fatal crashes. The NHAI will construct four vehicular underpasses, widen roads, and streamline traffic at junctions, including Thuvariman, Thanakkankulam and Sivarakottai. This stretch has witnessed several major accidents, including a 2022 omni-bus crash near Arasakulam that killed three and injured 11. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has sanctioned 117 crore to upgrade four accident-prone stretches in Tamil Nadu as part of its national initiative to develop \u2018zero fatality highways&#8217;. The bulk of the funding of 111 crore has been earmarked for the Madurai\u2013Kayathar section of NH-44, notorious for frequent and fatal crashes. The NHAI will construct four vehicular underpasses, widen roads, and streamline traffic at junctions, including Thuvariman, Thanakkankulam and Sivarakottai. This stretch has witnessed several major accidents, including a 2022 omni-bus crash near Arasakulam that killed three and injured 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645074","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}