Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Sh. Dushyant Chautala has directed the officers to take steps to remove the ‘Black-Spots’ from all the National Highways in the State so that people…
‘Black-Spots’ should be removed from all National Highways in the State –Sh. Dushyant Chautala
Chandigarh, March 16- Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Sh. Dushyant Chautala has directed the officers to take steps to remove the ‘Black-Spots’ from all the National Highways in the State so that people can be saved from loss of life and property. He has directed to prepare a preliminary report by identifying all the black-spots in a month.
The Deputy Chief Minister was presiding over the meeting organized for ‘Identification and Rectification of Road Accident Black Spot on National Highways’ here today.
During the meeting, Sh. Dushyant Chautala was apprised that although the National Highway is constructed keeping in mind all the ‘Safety Engineering Measures’ in which the standard of ‘Road Safety’ is kept at the highest position. Despite this, when there are more accidents at some places, then considering the area of 500 meters as a unit, the data of accidents during the last three years is collected there. On the basis of that, a place is called ‘Road Accident Black-Spot’. Due to the plethora of accidents, data is sent every year by the National Highways to the ‘Transport Research Wing’.
The Deputy Chief Minister directed the officers of Haryana Police, Transport Department and Public Works Department to identify road accident black-spots of all National Highways in the state by establishing mutual coordination and prepare a preliminary report and submit it within a month.
Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works Department, Sh. Anurag Rastogi, Director General of Police, Sh. PK Agrawal, Transport Commissioner, Sh. Amitabh Dhillon and other senior officers were present in the meeting.
No. IPRDH/2022
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