The state authorities is dedicated to creating the commuter on roads throughout Himachal Pradesh a secure and seamless expertise, a spokesperson of the transport division stated on Sunday.

The spokesperson highlighted the heterogeneous mixture of site visitors that features high-speed automobiles sharing the highway area with susceptible highway customers in addition to unsafe automobiles which can be in poor situation and hard hilly terrain as main causes for the excessive fatality fee.

Violation of site visitors legal guidelines by most drivers is one other large concern, the spokesperson stated, including that highway security was an space the place the state was taking numerous steps to make sure security.

“The state has already notified the Road Safety Policy and Himachal is the first state in India where the Road Accident Data Management System was launched and implemented successfully for scientifically analysing the accident data,” he stated.

In order to make sure a greater site visitors system and highway security on the nationwide highways, the state has determined to arrange three new traffic-cum-tourist-police stations on the Kiratpur-Manali four-lane freeway. These police stations will probably be opened in Bilaspur, Mandi and Kullu districts.

It will probably be operated with Intelligent Traffic Management System with Control Room at every police station. The identical is predicted to make sure fast police help in case of accidents.

Emergency name containers, CCTV cameras, automated site visitors counter-cum-classifiers, car actuated pace shows and overhead driver suggestions programs, variable message indicators, video incident detection system and MeT units are additionally being put in.

“All these initiatives will go a long way in making travelling in Himachal Pradesh more safe, secure and enjoyable,” the spokesperson stated.

Despite having troublesome terrain, Himachal Pradesh has developed a well-connected highway community having the very best highway density amongst all the opposite hill states of the nation.