The State could see reduction in road crash fatalities and injuries through improved road safety management and institutional reform besides results-based interventions on high risk roads.
The World Bank board has approved financing the US $ 250 million India State Support Programme for Road Safety. The programme will be implemented in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. In addition to improved road safety management, the programme envisages strengthening of emergency medical and rehabilitation services for post-crash care.
The project aims at establishing a national harmonised crash database system, the analysis of which would be used to construct better and safer roads to reduce incidents of road crashes. Though the number of accidents in the State have been on the decline, they still continue to be on the higher side.
