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India’s highways continue to struggle with a high fatality rate, with one death every three minutes. Despite various initiatives, the situation remains grim. NH data for 2022 shows an accident/fatality ratio of 2.49. This raises questions about the effectiveness of the rescue management system on National and State Highways, writes Lt Col. Sunil Purohit , Head, Operations, Maple Highways, who ...

IL&FS Transportation Networks recently got a contract from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to widen a 123km stretch of the national highway NH2. The project, to convert the stretch into a six-lane road, will be executed under the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) Phase V on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBOFT) basis. It will be ...