Financial Support For Deceased/Injured In Road Accidents
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has envisaged a cashless treatment facility on all four arms of Golden Quadrilateral stretch to provide Hospitalization Insurance cover to the immediate road Accident Victims (including Drivers/Passengers/ Pedestrians/Cyclists) on the identified National Highway stretches between Delhi-Mumbai/ Mumbai-Chennai/ Chennai-Kolkata/ Kolkata-Agra & Agra-Delhi Corridor of Golden Quadrilateral (NH) on cashless basis for treatment of bodily injury caused by and arising out of road accident only, so as to take care of the immediate needs of the hospitalization of the victims for the first 48 hours from the time of hospitalization or providing necessary treatment up to a cost of Rs. 30,000/, whichever occurs earlier starting from the time of the ambulance reaching the accident site, as recorded in the Control Room.
As per the data received from police department of Uttar Pradesh, total number of road accidents and persons killed on National Highways in the State of Uttar Pradesh during the last three calendar years 2018 to 2020 is given in the table below : -
|
Year
|
National Highways (including expressways)
|
|
|
Road Accidents
|
% increase or decrease over previous year
|
Persons killed
|
% increase or decrease over previous year
|
|
2018
|
16198
|
|
8818
|
|
|
2019
|
16181
|
-0.10
|
8830
|
0.14
|
|
2020
|
13695
|
-15.36
|
7859
|
-11.00
|
This information was given by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
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MJPS
(Release ID :234867)