Lok Sabha Question No. 3526 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-10
Subject: Road Accidents on Expressways
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: Omprakash Bhupalsinh alias Pawan Rajenimbalkar, Arvind Ganpat Sawant

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3526 ANSWERED ON 10 TH  AUGUST, 2023

## ROAD ACCIDENTS ON EXPRESSWAYS

3526. SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR: SHRI ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT:

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

be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  details  of  expressways  constructed/managed/controlled  by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in the country, Statewise;
- (b) whether the cases of accidents are increasing day by day on these expressways and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)  the  number  of  road  accidents  occured  on  these  expressways during the last three years and the current year;
- (d) whether the accidents on expressway are quite fatal and if so, the action taken by the Government thereon;
- (e)  whether  such  expressways  have  the  facility  of  number  plate readers and speed cameras to check the speeding vehicles and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f)  whether  efficient  traffic  management  on  the  expressways  has been included in the concession agreements/development and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS (SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) 27 Greenfield Expressways/Access Controlled Corridors of length of 9860 km (approx.) are under construction. Out of this, 7,213 km of length  has  been  awarded  and  nearly  3,192  km  length  has  been completed till July, 2023.

Details of the greenfield expressways and access-controlled corridors are under Annexure-I.

- (b) to (c) No Sir. As per data available for the year 2017 to 2021, the cases  of  road  accidents  are  not  increasing  day  by  day.  The  total number of road accidents, fatalities and persons injured on National Highways (including expressways) during calendar years from 2017 to 2021 is at Annexure-II.
- (d)  No  Sir.  The  total  number  of  fatal  road  accidents  on  National Highways (including expressways) during calendar year from 2017 to 2021 is at Annexure-III.
- (e)  &  (f)  The  provision  of  Advanced  Traffic  Management  System (ATMS)  in  high  traffic  density  corridors  includes  features  such  as CCTV/PTZ cameras, Variable Message Signs, Vehicle Actuated Speed Display System, Automatic Traffic Counter cum Classifier, and Video Incident  Detection  System  which  help  in  speedy  identification  of incidents  on  the  highway  stretches  and  effectively  monitor  the highway, thereby improving the response  time of the on-site assistance.

The enforcement of traffic rules/management pertains to the State Administration and concerned State Police Departments. There is no provision  of  separate  interceptors  by  NHAI  to  monitor  rampant speeding vehicles on National Highways. The same is to be done by the concerned State Police Department. However, in order to assist the  Police  Department  in  the  same,  violations  can  be  captured through  Speed  Detection  Cameras/Radars  along  with  Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) Cameras have been installed on some of  the  high  density  NHs  and  Expressways  such  as  DME,  Trans Haryana and EPE etc.

ANNEXURE-I  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (A)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.3526  ANSWERED  ON  10 TH  AUGUST,  2023 ASKED BY SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR  AND  SHRI  ARVIND  GANPAT  SAWANT  REGARDING 'ROAD ACCIDENTS ON EXPRESSWAYS'

Details of greenfield expressways and access-controlled corridors:

| Sr. No.   | Corridor Name                    | Length (km)   | Total Ca pital Co st (INR Cr.)   | Length Complet ed   | Remarks                                                                                                                 | State                                   |
|-----------|----------------------------------|---------------|----------------------------------|---------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| 1         | Delhi - Mumba i EXP 1,386        |               | 101,420                          | 872 722             | 247 km D elhi-Delhi Dausa - Lalsot op ened to p ublic Traf Delhi, na, Uttar desh, han, Pradesh, arat, Dadra and Nagar H | Harya Pra                               |
| 1.A       | Delhi - Vadod ara                | 845           | 41,841                           |                     | -                                                                                                                       | Rajast Madhya                           |
| 1.B       | Vadodara - Mu mbai               | 450           | 52,008                           | 115                 | 247 km D elhi-Delhi Dausa - Lalsot op ened to p ublic Traf Delhi, na, Uttar desh, han, Pradesh, arat, Dadra and Nagar H | Guj                                     |
| 1.C       | Delhi - Faridab ad - Sohna       | 91            | 7,572                            | 35                  | fic in Feb' 23                                                                                                          | aveli, Mahar ashtra                     |
| 2         | Ahmedabad - Dholera              | 109           | 4,192                            | 32                  | -                                                                                                                       | Gujarat                                 |
| 3         | Bengaluru - C hennai             | 262           | 16,730                           | 80                  | -                                                                                                                       | Karnataka, Andhra Prad esh, Tamil N adu |
| 4         | Delhi - Amrits ar - Katra        | 669           | 37,524                           | 137                 | -                                                                                                                       | Haryana, Pu njab, Jammu and Kashmir     |
| 5         | Kanpur - Luck now EXP            | 63            | 4,063                            | 0                   | -                                                                                                                       | Uttar Prades h                          |
|           | Expressway T otal                | 2,489         | 163,930                          | 1,122               |                                                                                                                         |                                         |
| 6         | Ambala - Kotp utli               | 313           | 11,375                           | 313                 | Open to T raffic                                                                                                        | Haryana                                 |
| 7         | Amritsar - Bha tinda - Jamna gar | 917           | 22,757                           | 734                 | 501 km A rjanasar- Jalore Se                                                                                            | Punjab, Hary ana, Rajasth               |
| 7.a       | Amritsar to Bh atinda            | 155           | 5,275                            | 2                   | ction in R ajasthan                                                                                                     | an, Gujarat                             |

| 7.b                                      | Sangariya to S antalpur   | 762    | 17,483 732   | open to tr affic.                       |                                           |
|------------------------------------------|---------------------------|--------|--------------|-----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| 8 Raipur khapatnam                       | - Visha 465               | 16,513 | 138          | Chhattisgar h, Odisha, A ndhra Prade sh | -                                         |
| 9 Hyderabad Vis hakhapatnam              | 222                       | 5,921  | 91           | -                                       | Telangana, Andhra Prad esh                |
| 10 UER II                                | 75                        |        | 7,010 52     | -                                       | Delhi                                     |
| 11 Chennai - Sale m                      | 277                       |        | 7,232 0      | -                                       | Tamil Nadu                                |
| 12 Chittor Thatch ur                     | 116                       | 4,754  | 7            | -                                       | Andhra Prad esh, Tamil N adu              |
| 13 Bangalore Rin g Road                  | 280                       | 11,022 | 72           | -                                       | Karnataka, Tamil Nadu                     |
| 14 Delhi - Sahara npur - Dehradu n       | 239                       | 12,601 | 35           | -                                       | Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Utt arakhand        |
| 15 Durg Raipur Ar ang                    | 92                        | 3,333  | 0            | -                                       | Chhattisgar h                             |
| 16 Hyderabad - R aipur                   | 335                       |        | 0            | - Telangana, Maharashtra , Chattisgar   | 10,118                                    |
| 17 Surat - Nashik - Ahmednagar - Solapur | 719                       | 23,921 | 93           | -                                       | Gujarat, Mah arashtra                     |
| 18 Solapur - Kurn ool - Chennai          | 340                       | 10,817 | 53           | -                                       | Maharashtra , Karnataka, Telangana        |
| 19 Indore - Hyder abad                   | 525                       | 13,759 | 370          | -                                       | Madhya Pra desh, Mahar ashtra, Tela ngana |
| 20 Kharagpur - Si liguri                 | 235                       | 8,635  | 0            | -                                       | West Bengal                               |
| 21 Kota Indore (G aroth to Ujjain )      | 135                       | 2,594  | 25           | -                                       | Madhya Pra desh, Rajast han               |
| 22 Nagpur - Vijay awada                  | 401                       | 14,055 | 88           | -                                       | Telangana                                 |

| 23   | Sanchore - De esa - Mehsana - Ahmedabad                    | 212   | 7,790   | 0     | -                 | Gujarat                                         |
|------|------------------------------------------------------------|-------|---------|-------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
| 24   | Bengaluru - K adappa - Vijay awada EXP                     | 342   | 13,559  | 0     | - Andhra Prad esh |                                                 |
| 25   | Varanasi - Ran chi - Kolkata                               | 612   | 22,490  | 0     | -                 | Uttar Prades h, Bihar, Jha rkhand, Wes t Bengal |
| 26   | Atal Progress way                                          | 412   | 12,140  | 0     | -                 | Rajasthan, Madhya Pra desh, Uttar Pradesh       |
| 27   | Mohali - Sirhin d - Khanna By pass - Malerko tla - Barnala | 108   | 2,111   | 0     | -                 | Punjab                                          |
|      | Access Contro lled                                         | 7,371 | 244,508 | 2,070 |                   |                                                 |
|      | Grand Total                                                | 9,860 | 408,437 | 3,192 |                   |                                                 |

ANNEXURE-II REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (B) TO (C) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.3526  ANSWERED  ON  10 TH  AUGUST,  2023 ASKED BY SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR  AND  SHRI  ARVIND  GANPAT  SAWANT  REGARDING 'ROAD ACCIDENTS ON EXPRESSWAYS'

| No. of Accident, Fatalities and Person Injured on NH (including Expressways)   | No. of Accident, Fatalities and Person Injured on NH (including Expressways)   | No. of Accident, Fatalities and Person Injured on NH (including Expressways)   | No. of Accident, Fatalities and Person Injured on NH (including Expressways)   |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Year                                                                           | No. of Accidents                                                               | No. of Fatalities                                                              | No. of Persons Injured                                                         |
| 2017                                                                           | 141466                                                                         | 53181                                                                          | 142622                                                                         |
| 2018                                                                           | 140843                                                                         | 54046                                                                          | 140622                                                                         |
| 2019                                                                           | 137191                                                                         | 53872                                                                          | 137549                                                                         |
| 2020                                                                           | 116496                                                                         | 47984                                                                          | 109898                                                                         |
| 2021                                                                           | 128825                                                                         | 56007                                                                          | 117765                                                                         |

ANNEXURE-III  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (D)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.3526  ANSWERED  ON  10 TH  AUGUST,  2023 ASKED BY SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR  AND  SHRI  ARVIND  GANPAT  SAWANT  REGARDING 'ROAD ACCIDENTS ON EXPRESSWAYS'

| No. of Fatal Accident on NH (includes Expressways) from 2017 to 2021   | No. of Fatal Accident on NH (includes Expressways) from 2017 to 2021   |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Year                                                                   | No. of Fatal Accidents                                                 |
| 2017                                                                   | 47223                                                                  |
| 2018                                                                   | 48550                                                                  |
| 2019                                                                   | 48291                                                                  |
| 2020                                                                   | 43412                                                                  |
| 2021                                                                   | 50953                                                                  |

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