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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar connected Saturday (February 21, 2026) directed officials to instal barricades, ft over-bridges and underpasses, and people zebra-crossings successful crowded municipality areas and agrarian parts to marque roads safer for pedestrians.
Instructions person besides been issued to place accident-prone zones, based connected the occurrence of a definite fig of accidents involving fatalities and grievous injuries, successful the agrarian and municipality areas of the State and to besides instal CCTV cameras truthful that an appraisal tin beryllium made and a simplification successful roadworthy accidents tin beryllium achieved.
The CM, successful an X post, said, "The State Government has taken respective important decisions for the dignity (of pedestrians) and convenience of citizens walking connected the roads. The Transport Department has been directed to instrumentality measures, including installation of zebra-crossings, barricades, foot-over-bridges, and underpasses successful crowded municipality areas and agrarian areas astatine the earliest." Instructions person been fixed to people zebra-crossings astatine the identified places for the convenience of radical walking connected the roads.
“The Department has besides been directed to conception ft over-bridges/escalators and underpasses astatine the identified places for the convenience of pedestrians,” the CM added.
"The Department has besides been instructed to place achromatic spots — places with a precocious likelihood of roadworthy accidents successful the agrarian and municipality areas of the State — and conception footpaths for pedestrians and instal CCTV cameras.
"I americium afloat assured that this inaugural volition beryllium to beryllium precise utile for radical walking connected the State's roads and their regular lives volition go easier," Mr. Kumar wrote.
The determination has been taken arsenic portion of the State Government's 'Saat Nischay-3' initiative. “The nonsubjective of the 'seven resolve' (Saat Nischay-3) is 'Sabka Samman-Jeevan Aasaan' (ease of living) to trim the difficulties successful the lives of each citizens of the State,” the CM said.
The Bihar Cabinet precocious gave its motion to rotation retired Saat Nischay-3 for 2025-2030, with the nonsubjective of making Bihar a developed State. The State Government has already implemented 2 'Saat Nischay' programmes since 2015.
