Nearly 27,000 people died in NH road accidents during Jan-June 2025: Gadkari
road accidents
on National Highways in the first six months of 2025 calendar year,
Parliament
was informed on Wednesday.
In a written reply to the
Rajya Sabha
, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister
Nitin Gadkari
said as many as 52,609 fatal accidents took place in 2024 on National Highways (NH).
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Gadkari
informed the House that National Highways Authority of India has installed Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) on high traffic density NH and National Expressways such as
Delhi-Meerut Expressway
, Trans-Haryana, Eastern Peripheral Expressway, Delhi Mumbai Expressway.
"ATMS has provisions for various electronic enforcement devices which help in speedy identification of incidents on highway stretches and effectively monitor highways, thereby improving the response time of the on-site assistance," he said.
The minister said that in new projects on high density and high speed corridors of NHAI, installation of ATMS is generally a part of the project.
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Further, ATMS is also implemented as standalone project in already constructed important corridors, he said.
Responding to a separate question, Gadkari said road safety audit has been conducted for 1,12,561 km NHs during last three years.
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