Cost India paying to developing its ROADS?

 

India is developing its road infrastructure to fast and to make it easy to go any part of the country via road weather it is Kashmir to Kanyakumari or Kutch to Dibrugarh. Recently, india surpasses china in the Road network and became the second largest Road network in the world with 6,331,791 kilometres (3,934,393 mi) after United States America which has road network of 68,03,479 km ( 4227486 mi) and in third position is china with road network of 5,200,000 (3231130 mi).

In the Year 2023-24 it is expected to expenditure of  Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) is 2,70,435 crore which is above 35 % growth from previous year.

But as india increasing its infrastructure the accidents on the roads in also increasing. Recently, MoRTH releases it annual report in which the data given of MoRTH is just shocking!

The cases report in the following years are 

2020 - 3.72 lakh

2021 - 4.12 lakh

2022 - 4.61 lakh

But when we check the number of person killed per 100 accident  the scenario changes and data was very shocking!

2020 - 37.2

2021 - 37.3

2022 - 36.5 

 

The all data shows the death of almost 37% people killed in per 100 accident.

From the above data we know that we should follow the guidelines issue by traffic police and follow all road-safety rules and regulations. 

The fines given by police is not more the cost of your life.