Govt rolls out initiatives to curb road crashes in 100 districts | India News

NEW DELHI: The govt has recognized 100 districts reporting excessive variety of road crashes and has rolled out ‘Data Driven Hyperlocal Intervention (DDHI)’ to undertake measures to curb crashes and deaths. The districts are unfold throughout 18 states — the best (19) is in Maharashtra, adopted by 18 in Uttar Pradesh and 11 in Karnataka — based mostly on the built-in road accident information collected since 2021.The DDHI has been conceptualised by the Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) at IIT-Madras. While most road crashes are attributed to human error, a major proportion is due to localised challenges. Districts have been prioritised for intervention to handle these challenges.“This initiative will adopt a bottom-up approach, empowering District Road Safety Councils (DRSCs), led by their respective chairpersons, to lead decision-making and implementation. The DDHI framework empowers councils to design targeted interventions tailored to district-specific road conditions, behavioural patterns, and geographical constraints,” an official assertion issued by the CoERS stated.Addressing the launch occasion, Union road transport secretary V Umashankar stated simply coverage selections in Delhi can’t carry down the variety of crashes and deaths. Interventions have to be made on the district stage, he stated. “Expensive solutions are always not the best solutions,” he stated, highlighting the necessity for higher evaluation of the precise explanation for crashes and required interventions.The DDHI programme will contain constructing capability and functionality inside chosen districts; empowering district management to establish and implement vital road security interventions; enabling sustainable, low-cost, high-impact options which can be community-informed and data-backed; and establishing scientific impression evaluation and assessment mechanism for the interventions taken up.