Lok Sabha Question No. 1669 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-29
Subject: Accident Prone Stretches on NHs
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: K. Muraleedharan, Rajeshbhai Naranbhai Chudasama

## be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  taken  the  steps  for  identification and rectifications  of  accident  prone  spots/  stretches  in  National Highways (NHs) on priority basis;
- (b)
- if so, the details of such spots/stretches identified and rectified;
- (c) whether National Highways Ambulance Service has been introduced along with setting  up  of  the  trauma  centres  on  such stretches for providing emergency medical facilities including the accountability of toll plaza;
- (d)
- if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the number of road accidents on NHs during the last three years, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## (SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) & (b) Transport Research Wing (TRW), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has collected the Black spot data from States/UTs based on  their  assessment  and  forwarded  it  to  concerned  agencies  NHAI, NHIDCL and DG Roads for further action. 'Road Accident black spot is a stretch of National Highway of about 500m in length in which either 5 road  accidents  (in  all  three  years  put  together  involving  fatalities/ grievous  injuries)  took  place  during  the  last  3  calendar  years  or  10 fatalities (in all three years put together) took place during the last 3 calendar years.'.  The statewise detail of blackspots identified by TRW is enclosed at Annexure-I.

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1669 ANSWERED ON 29 TH  JULY, 2021

## ACCIDENT PRONE STRETCHES ON NHS

1669. SHRI K. MURALEEDHARAN: SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

सड़क परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मंत्री

Ministry  has  identified  5803  blackspots  on  National  Highways based on accident and fatality data of year 2015-2018 in 30 states/UTs. Out of 5803 Black spots, temporary measures have been taken on 5167 black  spots  and  2923  Black  spots  have  been  permanently  rectified.

## Ministry is taking following steps to rectify blackspots:

-  Blackspots are being rectified by immediate short term measures such  as  cautionary  road  signs  and  markings,  transverse  bar markings, rumble strips and solar blinkers etc.
-  For long term rectification, measures such as Flyover, Underpasses,  Footover  Bridges,  Service  roads  etc.  are  being provided wherever required.
-  Each  blackspot  location  is  being  inspected  by  Road  Safety Officers  of  Regional  Offices,  Project  Director  of  Concerned  PIU and  Road  Safety  Expert of the Independent  Engineers  (IE)/ Authority's  Engineers  (AE)  /Safety  Consultants  and  recommend the  mitigation  measures.  Based  on  which  approval  is  being granted by the Regional Officer.
-  NHAI  has  issued  comprehensive  guidelines  on  preparation  of proposal, granting sanctions and execution of work for rectification  of  blackspots  vide  circular  no.  1.1.31/2019  dated 19.12.2019. Under these guidelines, Regional Officers have been delegated  financial  power  of  upto  Rs.  50  Cr  for  rectification  of blackspots including land acquisition without sending files to HQ for approval.
-  Traffic calming measures such as traffic warning signs, delineators, road studs, bar markings, humps at approach roads, etc.  are  taken  at  vulnerable  sections  of  National  Highways  to reduce road accident fatalities.
-  For  rectification  of  blackspots,  progress  of  rectification  is  being monitored at NHAI HQ and Ministry through regular meetings.
- (c) & (d) The  emergency  /  medical  facilities  for  the  road     accident victims  are  provided  as  per  the  respective  contract  /  concession agreements signed between NHAI and the contractor / concessionaire. Generally, as part of incident  management  under  operation  and maintenance  of  the  NH  stretches,  assistance  in  case  of  emergency  / accident on National  Highways  is  extended  through  ambulances stationed near the toll plazas so that victim can be transported to the nearest  appropriate  hospital/medical  facility  run  by  the  State  Govt.  / Private Entities.

In addition to above, NHAI has recently signed contract agreements     for  supply,  operation  and  maintenance  of  126  AIS-125 compliant Basic Life Support ambulances across NHs in the country.

(e) As per the information available with TRW, total number of road accidents  on  National  Highways  in  the  country  during  the  last  three calendar  years  from  2018  to  2020  (provisional)  is  given  in  the  table below:

| In India 8                              |   201 | 201 9   |   2020 (Prov.) |
|-----------------------------------------|-------|---------|----------------|
| Road Accidents on National Highways 843 |   140 | 137 191 |         116496 |

State-UT wise total number of road accidents on National Highways during the last three calendar years from period from 2018 to 2020 (Prov.) is enclosed at Annexure-II.

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  and  (b)  OF  LOK SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.1669 ON  29 th  JULY,  2021  ASKED BY SHRI K. MURALEEDHARAN AND SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA REGARDING ACCIDENT PRONE STRETCHES ON NHs.

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## Total no. of updated Black Spots available with TRW

|   Sl. No | States/Uts        |   Total no. of Black Spots with 5 road accidents or 10 fatalities on National Highways |
|----------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                                                                                    466 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |                                                                                      5 |
|        3 | Chandigarh        |                                                                                      6 |
|        4 | Goa               |                                                                                     29 |
|        5 | Gujarat           |                                                                                    250 |
|        6 | Haryana           |                                                                                     23 |
|        7 | Himachal Pradesh  |                                                                                    116 |
|        8 | Manipur           |                                                                                      5 |
|        9 | Meghalaya         |                                                                                      1 |
|       10 | Madhya Pradesh    |                                                                                    303 |
|       11 | Nagaland          |                                                                                     17 |
|       12 | Punjab            |                                                                                    296 |
|       13 | Rajasthan         |                                                                                    349 |
|       14 | Tamil Nadu        |                                                                                    748 |
|       15 | Uttarkhand        |                                                                                     54 |
|       16 | West Bengal       |                                                                                    701 |
|       17 | Bihar             |                                                                                     64 |
|       18 | Delhi             |                                                                                    113 |
|       19 | Karnataka         |                                                                                    551 |
|       20 | J&K               |                                                                                     64 |
|       21 | Maharashtra       |                                                                                     25 |
|       22 | Telangana         |                                                                                    485 |
|       23 | Tripura           |                                                                                      8 |
|       24 | Jharkhand         |                                                                                     58 |
|       25 | Chhattisgarh      |                                                                                    142 |
|       26 | Mizoram           |                                                                                      2 |
|       27 | Kerala            |                                                                                    243 |

| 28         | Assam      | 95   |
|------------|------------|------|
| 29         | Odisha 169 |      |
| 30         | UP         | 405  |
| 31         | Sikkim     | 10   |
| Total 5803 | Total 5803 |      |

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1669 ON 29 th  JULY, 2021 ASKED BY SHRI K. MURALEEDHARAN AND SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA REGARDING ACCIDENT PRONE STRETCHES ON NHs.

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## Total Number of Road Accidents on National Highways*: 2018 to 2020

| Sl. No.   | States/UTs        |   State/UT-Wise Total Number of Road Accidents on National Highways during |   State/UT-Wise Total Number of Road Accidents on National Highways during | State/UT-Wise Total Number of Road Accidents on National Highways during   |
|-----------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|           |                   |                                                                       2018 |                                                                       2019 | 2020(Prov.)                                                                |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |                                                                       8122 |                                                                       7682 | 7167                                                                       |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |                                                                         89 |                                                                         95 | 67                                                                         |
| 3         | Assam             |                                                                       3963 |                                                                       3988 | 2963                                                                       |
| 4         | Bihar             |                                                                       4016 |                                                                       4526 | 4101                                                                       |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      |                                                                       3995 |                                                                       3811 | 3463                                                                       |
| 6         | Goa               |                                                                       1425 |                                                                       1244 | 787                                                                        |
| 7         | Gujarat           |                                                                       3997 |                                                                       3511 | 3234                                                                       |
| 8         | Haryana           |                                                                       4358 |                                                                       3442 | 3039                                                                       |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |                                                                       1455 |                                                                       1396 | 1045                                                                       |
| 10 Jammu  | & Kashmir         |                                                                       2118 |                                                                       2081 | 1512                                                                       |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |                                                                       1616 |                                                                       2074 | 1772                                                                       |
| 12        | Karnataka         |                                                                      13638 |                                                                      13363 | 11230                                                                      |
| 13        | Kerala            |                                                                       9161 |                                                                       9459 | 6594                                                                       |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |                                                                       9967 |                                                                      10440 | 9866                                                                       |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |                                                                       9355 |                                                                       8360 | 6501                                                                       |
| 16        | Manipur           |                                                                        329 |                                                                        395 | 273                                                                        |
| 17        | Meghalaya         |                                                                        118 |                                                                        325 | 128                                                                        |
| 18        | Mizoram           |                                                                         23 |                                                                         21 | 25                                                                         |
| 19        | Nagaland          |                                                                        244 |                                                                        235 | 309                                                                        |
| 20        | Odisha            |                                                                       4207 |                                                                       4148 | 3673                                                                       |
| 21        | Punjab            |                                                                       2821 |                                                                       2423 | 2032                                                                       |
| 22        | Rajasthan         |                                                                       6726 |                                                                       6883 | 5764                                                                       |
| 23        | Sikkim            |                                                                         64 |                                                                         59 | 37                                                                         |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu        |                                                                      19583 |                                                                      17633 | 15269                                                                      |
| 25        | Telangana         |                                                                       6487 |                                                                       7352 | 6820                                                                       |
| 26        | Tripura           |                                                                        188 |                                                                        248 | 184                                                                        |
| 27        | Uttarakhand       |                                                                        816 |                                                                        662 | 524                                                                        |

| 28                           | Uttar Pradesh          | 16198                  | 16181                  | 13695                  |
|------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
| 29 West Bengal               | 4071                   | 3537                   | 3338                   |                        |
| 30 Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 93                     | 71                     | 42                     |                        |
| 31 Chandigarh                | 46                     | 36                     | 15                     |                        |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli         | 0                      | 0                      | 0                      | 32                     |
| Daman & Diu                  | 0                      | 0                      |                        | 33                     |
| 34 Delhi                     | 783                    | 857                    | 460                    |                        |
| 35 Lakshadweep               | 0                      | 0                      | 0                      |                        |
| 36 Puducherry                | 771                    | 653                    |                        | 567                    |
| Total 140843                 | Total 140843           |                        | 137191                 | 116496                 |
| * Includes expressways       | * Includes expressways | * Includes expressways | * Includes expressways | * Includes expressways |

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