Road ministry to come up with cashless treatment for accident victims
cashless treatment facility for all road accident victims at the Ayushman Bharat hospitals while work is on to rectify about 5,000 remaining black spots in the country by May 2025 as the aim is to reduce road accident related death and injuries by half by 2030, road secretary Anurag Jain said.
“We plan to introduce cashless medical treatment for all injured road accident victims across the nation within the next three to four months,” Jain said while addressing the International Road Federation (IRF) conference on ‘Vision Zero, Targeting road safety by 5E’s with innovative technologies’, organised in association with the ministry of road transport and highways and Maruti Suzuki.
According to Jain, the nationwide scheme, to be introduced by the ministry, will be merged with the final scheme to be launched by the ministry of health and family welfare at the later stage.
Talking about eliminating all black spots on the national highways, Jain said about 4000 accident prone engineering faults have been rectified till date and the concerned authorities have been asked to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) of the remaining 5,000 black spots within the next three months. “All DPRs will be prepared within three months and we hope to sanction all projects in one go as we aim to rectify all engineering defects by May 2025,” he said.
According to Jain, the road safety audit of all national highways in the entire country will be achieved soon and the ministry of road transport plans to launch zero complaints for road maintenance making all highways fully maintained by the concerned highway authorities.
Jain further said that the road ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy based on 5E’s of road safety to address
