As accidents on the country’s national highways continue unabated, the government has directed road safety audits of all highways in the next three months, including the ones under construction and the ones in pre-construction and even design stages.
Each regional office of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will identify five stretches of at least 50 km with the highest accidents/black spots and work to turn them into ‘Model Safe Roads’.
Similarly, five upcoming stretches where construction has progressed between 30 and 70 per cent will be developed as ‘Model Safe Construction Zones’. They are to have barricades with lights,
