Home guards to be deployed on under-repair Mumbai-Goa highway to prevent accidents

To ensure that there are no accidents on the four-lane Mumbai-Goa highway that is being repaired at various spots, 147 home guards will be deployed at various accident-prone spots. This has been done keeping an eye on the upcoming festive season, especially in the Konkan belt — through which the highway passes — that will see a lot of traffic on the road.

An official said, “For a period of three months since August 1, we have decided to place home guards at these spots in order to avoid accidents on the highway.” The repair work on the highway has been underway for over a decade now but there are still spots where there are major potholes and the quality of the road is bad.”