Union minister Nitin Gadkari speaks in Lok Sabha (ANI)
NEW DELHI: On an practical, 485 other folks died in boulevard crashes each day in 2024, with complete fatalities reaching 1.77 lakh, in accordance to boulevard transport ministry advised Lok Sabha on Thursday.
National Highways (NHs), which yarn for barely 2% of India’s boulevard network, recorded 54,443 fatalities (31%), the bottom share in previous four years.The total form of deaths final yr was as soon as 2.3% increased than in 2023, when 1.73 lakh other folks had been killed in boulevard crashes. TOI had reported on Nov 5 on the style for the yr, which suggested that fatalities in 2024 would exceed those within the earlier yr.
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In a written answer to a question from DMK’s A Raja, Union boulevard transport minister Nitin Gadkari stated, “As per knowledge got from states/UTs, complete form of boulevard accident fatalities reported within the nation on all category of roads for the length of 2024 had been 1,77,177, which contains recordsdata in appreciate of Bengal taken from digital detailed accident memoir (eDAR) portal.”
Govt has rolled out eDAR system for true-time assortment of knowledge. Sources stated abilities exhibits eDAR recordsdata are largely staunch, though there could be scope for minor corrections, and therefore there could be more likely to be a diminutive lengthen within the form of deaths when the annual memoir of accidents is printed.Recordsdata on crashes and fatalities on NHs, also submitted to Lok Sabha, dispute that accidents on these stretches admire reduced — from 1.52 lakh in 2022 to 1.29 lakh — and fatalities admire dropped from 56,007 in 2021 to correct over 54,000.
UP has reported significant decline in deaths on NHs, from 8,446 in 2023 to 5,524 final yr. Officials stated while right here’s a particular indicator, increased effort is wished to diminish fatalities on NHs and inform highways, which admire much less network length comparatively nonetheless yarn for round 55% of deaths.“We are bettering roads, technologies and autos, nonetheless there could be a scarcity of coaching among all categories of boulevard users.
This could maybe be addressed via consciousness, motivation and enforcement,” stated Manoj Bhatt, ancient DGP of Rajasthan.Consultants stated govt must always comprise civil society and a increased pool of non-authorities entities for abundant-scale consciousness campaigns, in preference to counting on entirely about a organisations, given the magnitude of the disaster.Meanwhile, govt is roping in IIT-Kanpur to make exercise of AI for mapping and scientifically analysing high-possibility spots on NHs, officers stated.
They added that this would maybe succor title causes of frequent crashes at particular areas, enabling focused interventions.The boulevard transport ministry also plans to amend Motor Vehicles Act by introducing stricter norms for issuing riding licences and a detrimental-aspects system for harmful riding that could maybe result in suspension or cancellation of licences.
