ROAD DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA/KERALA
India has a road network of 63.73 lakh km which is the second largest iin the world. This can be bifurcated as below. a) National Highways - 1,44,634 km. b) State Highways - 1,86,908 km. c) Other roads - 59,02,539 km When we take Kerala,the state has 1,812 km National Highways, 4,342 km of state highways numbering about 72 and 25,394 km of major district roads. As per the quality of the roads, the following countries hold the top rankings. 1. Singapore 2. Netherlands 3. Switzerland 4. Japan 5. Denmark 6. Spain. As far as road accidents are concerned, as per available information, about 1.5 lakh people die in road accidents in an year in India. In other words it is 1130 accidents and 422 deaths every day. In 2021 there were 4,12,432 accidents reported taking 1,53,972 lives and causing injuries 3,84,448 people in the country. Now coming back to Kerala there were an average of 12 people died in road accidents every day in 2022. During the period of 2018-2022, ...