{"id":99029,"date":"2020-08-04T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=99029"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:11:41","slug":"relaying-plan-for-jk-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/relaying-plan-for-jk-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaying plan for J&amp;K roads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Which of the following programme is correct regarding \u201cmacadamisation programme\u201d for roads across J&amp;K ?<\/strong><br>(a) Macadam is a type of road construction, pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam<br>(b) G C Murmu has launched the \u2018Macadamisation program\u2019 to improve the roads across Jammu and Kashmir<br>(c) Both (a) &amp; (b)<br>(d) None of the above<br><strong>Answer : (c)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu on Thursday(23 July 2020) announced the launch of a &#8216;Macadamisation Program&#8217; for the improvement of roads across Jammu and Kashmir.<\/li><li>Murmu has approved a program for 100 percent macadamisation of all roads in the Union Territory including 11,000 km of fair-weather roads.<\/li><li>Meanwhile, Lieutenant Governor also announced a release of Rs 200 Crores to the Public Works Department as the first tranche so that the macadamisation work on priority roads can commence.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Macadam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Macadam is a type of road construction, pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which single-sized crushed stone layers of small angular stones are placed in shallow lifts and compacted thoroughly.<\/li><li>A binding layer of stone dust (crushed stone from the original material) may form; it may also, after rolling, be covered with a binder to keep dust and stones together. The method simplified what had been considered state of the art at that point.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8212; Pankaj Pandey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessworld.in\/article\/J-K-announces-launch-of-Macadamisation-Program-for-improvement-of-roads\/23-07-2020-300720\/\">http:\/\/www.businessworld.in\/article\/J-K-announces-launch-of-Macadamisation-Program-for-improvement-of-roads\/23-07-2020-300720\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/j-k\/relaying-plan-for-jk-roads-117985\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/j-k\/relaying-plan-for-jk-roads-117985<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Which of the following programme is correct regarding \u201cmacadamisation programme\u201d for roads across J&amp;K ?(a) Macadam is a type of road construction, pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam(b) G C Murmu has launched the \u2018Macadamisation program\u2019 to improve the roads across Jammu and Kashmir(c) Both (a) &amp; (b)(d) None of the aboveAnswer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":99030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2486],"class_list":["post-99029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-and-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99031,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99029\/revisions\/99031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}