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SAFETY
Capacity Review was conducted, and
its recommendations incorporated
into the design of the Second Gujarat
State Highways Project (GSHPII), then
under preparation. Two noteworthy
recommendations that formed part of
the project’s road safety component
were: the establishment of a steering
committee to lead and manage
the road safety component; and
the creation of a state lead agency.
GSHPII was approved in December
2013 and at project effectiveness in
December 2015, the State had already
formulated and adopted a road safety
policy which, inter alia, advocated the
creation of a lead agency. In parallel,
the Bank facilitated several workshops the self-drive and proactivity. best instrument we can use to make
and knowledge exchange activities to While GUJROSA is off to a strong the case for expanding the GUJROSA
inform the design and implementation start, the project teams will work model to other states, for showing the
of the agency. The lead agency has towards boosting the capacity, relevance of a concerted approach,
been realized faster than expected effectiveness, and impact of the agency. and for helping our counterparts make
under GSHPII, now in its fourth year of As we move ahead, one of our priorities informed decisions about road safety.
implementation and two years before will be to monitor results as closely as The lives of 300,000 people a year are
closure. Kudos to the State as well for possible— believing that hard data is the at stake.
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