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People are dying because of bad roads. A few days ago, two people were killed and 38 were injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge in Udhampur, Jammu. The main cause of the accident was bad road and negligence. After investigation, the police said that the road from where the bus fell into the gorge is very bad. Road widening work is also being done. Due to the twist there, the road has become narrower. Actually, due to bad roads, road accidents happen every day in different areas of the country. The condition of the roads worsens especially during the rainy season. It is raining in 22 states of the country. There are flood situations in many places. Due to this the roads have become worse and accidents are happening.
road condition did not change
The picture of Madhubani district of Bihar had gone viral in which potholes built on several km long road on NH 227A looked like small swimming bridges. Sanjay Jha, a resident of Bisfi, says that it was discussed a lot on social media. Picture shared, but not corrected. A little soil was poured on the side of Vasopatti, but still the road is almost the same.
groaning sick
Sanjay says that the condition of the main road in Benipatti and Bisfi block is bad. People passing through it groan. The liver of seriously ill people comes to the mouth. Afraid to even go to the hospital. In rains, the situation gets worse. He says that where there should be a road for a population of 250, there is no road even for a population of 5000. Wherever there is a road, it is in bad shape. People have also become used to it. Now don’t even complain. The condition of roads is also bad in Bisfi village, the birthplace of Mahakavi Vidyapati.
Campaign running potholes warrior in Mumbai
The condition of roads in Mumbai, about 2000 km from Madhubani, is bad. Every year heavy rains and floods change the appearance of the roads. When the flood water recedes, it also takes off the skin of the roads. Leaves a pit as a sign. That’s why there are pothole warriors in Mumbai too. He runs a campaign to fill potholes on the roads. Between 2017 and 2021, there were 17,908 complaints of potholes on the roads in Mumbai. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is responsible for the roads. According to the BMC’s potholes tracking website, about 30 to 40 percent of potholes come out every year. The reason for bad roads is water logging, quality and negligence of BMC officials. Due to bad roads, more than 3000 road accidents take place in Mumbai every year.
Crisis on employment of women due to bad roads
The Feminist Economics Journal has reported in one of its research that women are more unemployed in areas where roads are bad. Different rural areas of India were selected in the research. The report said that in villages which were connected to the main roads through auxiliary roads, women there were going out for work other than farming. Due to this, she was standing on her feet and her status in the family was also increasing. On the contrary, where the roads were bad, there were no potholes on the roads, there was no improvement in the economic condition of the women.
impact on women’s health
Parveen Banu, a resident of Bangalore, says that she was going from Anand Nagar to Government Hospital by auto six years ago. She was pregnant and the delivery was to take place within a few hours. Due to the bad road, the child had to be given birth in the auto itself. Parveen says that there is also a fear of dying if she falls seriously ill.
Girls have trouble going to school
The road was bad for one kilometer in Madanpur Khadar area of Delhi. The Delhi High Court then issued notices to the Delhi Government, South Delhi Municipal Corporation, Delhi Development Authority and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board. The court’s observation was whether it can be called a road. There are Delhi Government School Of Excellence, Co-Ed School, SDMC Delhi Primary School along this route. The girls of these schools complained that at times they were not able to go to school due to bad roads. Some even fell and got injured.
marriages get delayed
27-year-old Bindu is a school teacher from Karnataka. He wrote a letter to the Chief Minister informing that marriages of people were not taking place in H Rampura village of Davangere district due to bad roads. Rampura is his village. He told that the roads are so broken that even walking on them is difficult. That’s why relationships don’t happen. Relatives run away on seeing the road. This letter went viral on social media.
Who is responsible for road construction
The responsibility of road construction in India lies with many agencies. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is responsible for the construction and maintenance of Express Highways and National Highways. Similarly, the PWD of the state governments is responsible for the construction and repair of state highways. Municipal corporations build roads in cities. They also have to maintain these roads on them. The responsibility of making rural roads rests with the Panchayats. These roads are built under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
road accident laws
The Motor Vehicles Act 1988 is there to deal with the matters related to road accidents. It came into force in 1989 after being passed by Parliament in 1988. Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) are also added in the case of road accidents when it comes to rash driving or negligence. In such a situation, the guilty can be jailed for two years under section 304A of the IPC. Sections 279, 336, 337, 338 of the IPC provide for punishment for different periods. There is a provision for compensation to the victim under the Motor Vehicles Act. Recently, the central government had notified new rules related to this.
Road network of more than 64 lakh km in India
India is the second largest road network country in the world after America. All types of roads, National Highways, State Highways, District Roads, Rural Roads, City Roads etc. are included in the length of more than 64 lakh km. The road network in the US, which is three times larger in area, is 66.45 lakh km. In the coming few years, India will overtake the US in terms of road network.
Most deaths in the whole world every day due to potholes on the roads
This may be a good news, but the worrying thing is that India has the highest number of accidents in the whole world due to poor quality of roads. The government report states that there were 3,564 accidents in 2020 due to potholes on the roads. In this, Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of 3,428 deaths. Maharashtra came second, Madhya Pradesh third and West Bengal fourth.