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preparation of detailed project “When it comes to
report, road safety always takes road safety, Indian
a backseat.”
Now with the new thrust on concessionnaire
road safety, during the panel take as patchwork
discussion, Sanghi suggested approach
Dr HM Naqvi, Chief General
Manager (Technical), National - Neeraj Sanghi
Highways Authority of India to
enlighten how NHAI and the
road ministry is going beyond the
current approach towards road same has been addressed by the respect not only improving the
safety. Naqvi commenced his government. road geometry but also capacity
speech with some unavoidable Speaking about government building to NHAI officials,
statistics on road network and initiatives that will bring down concessionnaire and consultants.”
accidents. According to him, 2% the fatalities and accidents, Sharing the information on the
of the highway network in India Naqvi told the audience about black spot, Naqvi said that the
caters to 40% of the traffic, and the identification of black spots Ministry of Road Transport and
this traffic attributes roughly on NHs. According to him, the Highways had come out with a
to 53,000 fatalities on National government has completed the new set of road accident data.
Highways. Considering road short-term remedial measures Besides, it has identified around
safety is low-hanging fruit, the and subsequently carried out 8,000 black spots spread across
contractors have always failed long-term measures. He went 18 states. Out of these, around
to grab it first. Going forward, on saying, “we are working on 4,000 black spots are observed
Naqvi spoke about how the a multipronged approach with on the national highways

Dr. H. M. Naqvi, Dr Zafar Khan, Neeraj Sanghi, Ravishankar Rajaraman and Tony Mathew

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