Lok Sabha Question No. 1918 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-27
Subject: Black Spots
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: P.K.SREEMATHI TEACHER

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1918

ANSWERED ON 27 TH  JULY, 2017

## BLACK SPOTS

## 1918.  SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS सडक परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मंत्री

be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has identified road accident black spots on National Highways in the country including the State of Kerala;
- (b)          if  so,  the  details  of  black  spots  on  each  of  the  National  Highways  identified,  National Highway-wise;
- (c) the steps taken by the Government to remove these spots; and
- (d) the status of road accidents, on black spots during the last three years and current year?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## (SHRI PON. RADHAKRISHNAN)

- (a) Yes Madam.
- (b) 789 black spots have been identified based on fatalities in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014. Of these 659 black spots are on National Highways and rest are on other roads. National Highway-wise details of the black spots are at annexure.
- (c) The identified black spots are inspected  and are  taken up for  rectification  either in  the development projects on the stretches in which they are falling or on a standalone basis. Immediate  cautionary  measures  are  installed  to  alert  the  road  users  in  the  intervening period till the black spots are finally rectified.
- (d) Road accident data is received, compiled and published on calendar year basis. Number of road accidents during the last three years on different categories of roads including the accidents which occurred at black spots are given below. Road accident data separately at black spots is neither received nor compiled.

|   Calendar Year | No. of road accidents on different roads including those on identified black spots   |
|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|            2013 | 4,86,476                                                                             |
|            2014 | 4,89,400                                                                             |
|            2015 | 5,01,423                                                                             |

Road accident data in respect of 2016 and the current year are yet to be compiled and published.

## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  1918  ANSWERED  ON  27.07.2017  ASKED  BY  SHRIMATI  P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER REGARDING BLACK SPOTS.

| State            | NH No.   | No. of black spots   |
|------------------|----------|----------------------|
| Andhra           |          |                      |
| Pradesh          | 16       | 6                    |
|                  | 40       | 1                    |
|                  | 44       | 2                    |
| Bihar            | 19       | 1                    |
|                  | 28       | 16                   |
|                  | 30       | 1                    |
|                  | 31       | 3                    |
|                  | 107      | 3                    |
| Chhattisgarh     | 30       | 10                   |
|                  | 53       | 11                   |
|                  | 130      | 7                    |
|                  | 153      | 1                    |
|                  | 200      | 1                    |
| Delhi            | 8        | 2                    |
| Gujarat          | 6        | 3                    |
|                  | 8        | 12                   |
|                  | 14       | 1                    |
|                  | 8A       | 3                    |
|                  | 8B       | 3                    |
|                  | 8D       | 2                    |
|                  | 8E       | 2                    |
| Haryana          | 1        | 14                   |
|                  | 2        | 7                    |
|                  | 8        | 8                    |
|                  | 10       | 2                    |
|                  | 22       | 1                    |
|                  | 65       | 4                    |
|                  | 73A      | 1                    |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5        | 2                    |
|                  | 103      | 1                    |
|                  | 154      | 2                    |
| Jharkhand        | 2        | 5                    |
|                  | 23       | 1                    |
|                  | 31       | 6                    |
|                  | 32       | 5                    |
|                  | 33       | 3                    |

| State          | NH No.   |   No. of black spots |
|----------------|----------|----------------------|
| Jammu& Kashmir | 1A       |                    6 |
|                | 44       |                    1 |
| Karnataka      | 4        |                   23 |
|                | 7        |                    1 |
|                | 13       |                    3 |
|                | 17       |                    2 |
|                | 48       |                    7 |
|                | 63       |                    3 |
|                | 150A     |                    3 |
|                | 206      |                    2 |
|                | 212      |                    2 |
|                | 218      |                    3 |
| Kerala         | 47       |                    3 |
|                | 66       |                   29 |
|                | 966      |                    1 |
| Maharashtra    | 3        |                    3 |
|                | 4        |                    4 |
|                | 4A       |                    1 |
|                | 6        |                    6 |
|                | 8        |                    5 |
|                | 9        |                    3 |
|                | 17       |                    2 |
|                | 50       |                    2 |
|                | 211      |                    2 |
| Meghalaya      | 40       |                    2 |
|                | 44       |                    3 |
|                | 62       |                    3 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3        |                   13 |
|                | 7        |                    7 |
|                | 26       |                    1 |
|                | 27       |                    4 |
|                | 34       |                    1 |
|                | 54       |                    2 |
|                | 59       |                    1 |
|                | 75       |                    3 |
|                | 76       |                    1 |
|                | 86       |                    3 |

| State     | NH No.   |   No. of black spots |
|-----------|----------|----------------------|
| Nagaland  | 29       |                    1 |
|           | 36       |                    2 |
| Odisha    | 5        |                    8 |
|           | 53       |                    1 |
|           | 55       |                    3 |
| Rajasthan | 3        |                    1 |
|           | 6        |                    1 |
|           | 8        |                   19 |
|           | 11       |                    9 |
|           | 12       |                    4 |
|           | 14       |                    6 |
|           | 15       |                    2 |
|           | 65       |                    4 |
|           | 76       |                    1 |
|           | 89       |                    2 |
|           | 112      |                    1 |
|           | 114      |                    2 |
| Telangana | 30       |                    1 |
|           | 44       |                   36 |
|           | 63       |                    8 |
|           | 65       |                   12 |
|           | 163      |                   13 |
|           | 563      |                    1 |
|           | 765      |                    1 |
| Tamilnadu | 4        |                    7 |
|           | 5        |                    4 |
|           | 7        |                   15 |
|           | 7A       |                    2 |
|           | 43       |                    1 |
|           | 44       |                    1 |
|           | 45       |                   27 |
|           | 45A      |                    3 |
|           | 45B      |                    3 |
|           | 45C      |                    2 |
|           | 46       |                    2 |
|           | 47       |                    5 |
|           | 49       |                    1 |
|           | 67       |                   17 |
|           | 208      |                    1 |
|           | 209      |                    3 |
|           | 226      |                    1 |
|           | 227      |                    1 |
|           | 234      |                    1 |

*****

| State         | NH No.   |   No. of black spots |
|---------------|----------|----------------------|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2        |                   30 |
|               | 24       |                   21 |
|               | 24B      |                    2 |
|               | 25       |                    1 |
|               | 27       |                    1 |
|               | 28       |                    4 |
|               | 29       |                    2 |
|               | 56       |                    6 |
|               | 58       |                    1 |
|               | 76       |                    2 |
|               | 91       |                    6 |
|               | 96       |                    1 |
|               | 119      |                    1 |
|               | 235      |                    1 |
| West Bengal   | 2        |                    8 |
|               | 6        |                    5 |
|               | 31       |                    2 |
|               | 31D      |                    1 |
|               | 34       |                   11 |
|               | 35       |                    1 |
|               | 41       |                    2 |
| Total         | Total    |                  659 |