{"id":15963,"date":"2023-10-17T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:56:31","slug":"setu-bandhan-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/setu-bandhan-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Setu Bandhan Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Setu Bandhan Scheme:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an initiative of the\u00a0<strong>Ministry for Road Transport and Highways.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:\u00a0<\/strong>It has introduced to improve inter-state connectivity, especially on the rural areas at the borders where state roads do not get the required attention.<\/li>\n<li>It is aimed at replacement of\u00a0<strong>railway line Level Crossings<\/strong> (LCs) with\u00a0<strong>Road Over Bridges (ROBs)\/Rail Under Bridges (RUBs) in the states.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Key facts about Central Road and Infrastructure Fund<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 2000 under the\u00a0<strong>Central Road Fund Act, 2000.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was previously known as the Central<strong> Road Fund.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its subject matter\u00a0<strong>belongs to the Ministry of Finance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The fund consists of a\u00a0<strong>cess imposed along with excise duty on the petrol and diesel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Central Road Fund Act, 2000 was amended in 2018 and its objectives are as follows\n<ul>\n<li>To use proceeds of the road cess under CRIF to finance other infrastructure projects such\u00a0<strong>as waterways, some portion of the railway infrastructure and even social infrastructure<\/strong>, including education institutions and medical colleges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is cess?<\/h3>\n<p>Cess is a form of tax charged\/levied over and above the base tax liability of a taxpayer. A cess is usually imposed additionally when the state or the central government looks to raise funds for specific purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1967034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Shri Nitin Gadkari approves 7 bridge projects worth Rs 118.50 Crore in Arunachal Pradesh under the Setu Bandhan Scheme<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setu Bandhan Scheme is an initiative of the Ministry for Road Transport and Highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}