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The fig of roadworthy mishap fatalities successful India roseate 2.3% to implicit 1.77 lakh successful 2024, resulting successful the decease of 485 persons each day, Parliament was informed.
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Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, successful a written reply to Lok Sabha, said that the Stockholm Declaration connected Road Safety, adopted astatine the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference connected Road Safety successful February 2020, sets a caller planetary people to trim roadworthy postulation deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030.
"As per the accusation received from States/UTs, full fig of roadworthy mishap fatalities reported successful the state connected each categories of roads during the calendar twelvemonth 2024 were 1,77,177, which includes information successful respect of West Bengal taken from eDAR portal," Mr. Gadkari said.
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A full fig of 4,80,583 roadworthy accidents person been reported by Police Departments of States and Union Territories (UTs) successful the state during the calendar twelvemonth 2023, claiming 1,72,890 lives and causing injuries to 4,62,825 persons.
The Minister said arsenic per the World Road Statistics 2024, the fatality complaint per lakh colonisation is 4.3 successful China, and 12.76 successful the United States of America, arsenic compared to India, wherever it is 11.89.
Mr. Gadkari said the authorities has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to code the contented of roadworthy information based connected 4E's i.e. Education, Engineering (both of roads and vehicles), Enforcement and Emergency Care.
Accordingly, assorted initiatives person been taken for roadworthy information successful the country.
