Three national highways will be made road accident free under pilot project | 14 Apr 2022

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On April 13, 2022, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Transport and Road Safety Department of Rajasthan, Abhay Kumar said that in compliance with the budget announcement, three major national highways of the state would be made road accident free under the pilot project.

Key Points

• The Additional Chief Secretary gave this information in a meeting held in the Government Secretariat regarding 'Prevention of Road Accidents'.
• The three major national highways that will be made road accident free under the pilot project include Shahjahanpur to Ajmer (NH-448), Bar-Bilara-Jodhpur (NH-25) and Sikar to Bikaner (NH-110) National Highways.
• The Additional Chief Secretary directed the concerned officers to further improve the response time of ambulances and to encourage the Good Samaritans who took serious injuries in road accidents to the hospital immediately by rewarding them under the 'Mukhyamantri Chiranjeevi Jeevan Raksha Yojna'.
• He said that data related to road accidents should be uploaded immediately through Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) application so that they can be scientifically analyzed to reduce accidents.