{"id":651074,"date":"2025-11-03T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651074"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:51:54","slug":"new-rule-makes-contractors-liable-for-road-mishaps-on-nhs-up-to-rs-50-lakh-penalty-for-repeat-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-rule-makes-contractors-liable-for-road-mishaps-on-nhs-up-to-rs-50-lakh-penalty-for-repeat-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"New rule makes contractors liable for road mishaps on NHs, up to Rs 50 lakh penalty for repeat accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Highways, on Sunday has decided to fine contractors if more than one accident occurs in a year on a particular stretch of a National Highway built under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, a senior government official told news agency PTI. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf more than one accident happens in a particular stretch, say 500 meters, then the contractor will face a penalty of Rs 25 lakh. Penalty will increase to Rs 50 lakh if an accident happens next year,\u201d V Umashankar, Secretary, Road Transport and Highways, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Highways, on Sunday has decided to fine contractors if more than one accident occurs in a year on a particular stretch of a National Highway built under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, a senior government official told news agency PTI. \u201cIf more than one accident happens in a particular stretch, say 500 meters, then the contractor will face a penalty of Rs 25 lakh. Penalty will increase to Rs 50 lakh if an accident happens next year,\u201d V Umashankar, Secretary, Road Transport and Highways, said.<\/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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651074","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=651074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}