US to cooperate in making Indian roads safe: Gadkari
The US will cooperate with India in making roads safe by offering a range of innovative technology and software in intelligent traffic management to reduce road accidents in the country, Union Minister for Road and Surface Transportation Nitin Gadkari has said.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-07-12 17:27 GMT
Washington
Acknowledging that road safety is a ‘big problem’ in India, Gadkari said every year more than 150,000 people are killed in five lakh road accidents.
“We are taking the co-operation of the US government in particularly for road safety and intelligent traffic management system, which we are also going to implement in India,” he said.
Gadkari said, “The US has also promised to give all technical co-operation for standardisation of our Indian code for road construction, bridges and flyovers.”
“Their experience and their present rules and regulations, codification, all the manuals are there and they are ready to share all types of manuals, codes, rules and regulations with us,” he said.
“In India we are critically facing the problem of road accidents. We have 96,000 km of road length as national highway and 40 per cent of national traffic on this 2 per cent of road. We are facing a lot of accidents on national highway,” he said.
“Road safety is highest priority for our government,” Gadkari told Indian journalists during a media round-table after his-day long meetings including that with US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and members from the American business community.
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