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NEW DELHI: Nasik-Rural, Pune-Rural, Patna, Ahmednagar, Purba Medinipur, Solapur-Rural, Muzaffarpur, Belagavi, Kanpur and Bulandshahr are among the apical successful 100 districts successful the state that person recorded a precocious fig of roadworthy deaths, arsenic per a presumption made astatine the caller authorities transporters conscionable successful Delhi.
The database has been prepared based connected roadworthy deaths information of 2023 and 2024.The gathering was chaired by roadworthy transport curate Nitin Gadkari and 27 ministers from states participated successful this. “A elaborate survey has been carried retired to place the districts that request peculiar attention. There is simply a request for taking contiguous and evidence-based measures to curb roadworthy deaths to execute the extremity of zero fatality. Interventions successful Nagpur territory has brought down fatalities by 22% past twelvemonth compared to 2024, by 5% successful Unnao successful Uttar Pradesh and by 4% successful Kamrup successful Assam.
These amusement that we tin trim roadworthy deaths by taking close measures,” Gadkari said.As per the details shared with authorities transport ministers and transport commissioners, the 100 districts crossed 15 states, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Telangana, recorded implicit 89,000 deaths successful 2023 and 2024. It was recovered that 53% of the fatalities were reported successful crashes betwixt 3 p.m. and midnight.
It besides shows that 72% of deaths were owed to read-end, head-on and pedestrian crashes.The ministry has besides rolled retired ‘Data Driven Hyperlocal Intervention (DDHI)’ to undertake measures to curb crashes and deaths crossed 100 districts, which includes implicit 30-odd that are portion of the programme to execute zero fatality.While launching the DDHI, roadworthy transport caput V Umashankar had said that conscionable argumentation decisions successful Delhi can’t bring down the fig of crashes and deaths. “Interventions person to beryllium made astatine the territory level. Expensive solutions are ever not the champion solutions,” helium had said, highlighting the request for amended investigation of the nonstop origin of crashes and required interventions.
