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NHAI mulls over mobile application to catch traffic violators

NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) is mulling over a new mobile application to catch traffic violators with the help of the public. The initiative is meant to promote road safety and highway management, and will be released by December 2015. It will enable users to submit complaints related to those indulging in rash driving, breaking signals, breaching the speed limit and more. There will be an option to click a photo of speeding vehicles and any other rule being violated, and then send it to the relevant department.

Complaints about traffic violators are expected to be registered in the ledger of the offending vehicle after which the police or transport authority will act upon it. NHAI Chairman Raghav Chandra states that the mobile app would take a month or two for development, reports PTI. There are plans to fortify the various bodies pertaining to standardization and planning of roads as well as safety such as the Indian Roads Congress and the Institute of Highway Engineers.

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Chandra admits that more needs to be done towards managing, controlling and patrolling of the network of Indian highways, and hopes to bring about significant change within the next two years at least. NHAI is already busy creating a data bank of all the highways under its RAMS (Road Asset Management System). The program covers 3000 kilometers of roads for now. Within a year, information on the entire stretch of 100000 kilometers of highways will be collected.

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The details will include the quality and width of roads, encroachment, area under the right of way, problems with junctions and much more. Chandra feels the data will be helpful to improve the condition of roads, route traffic efficiently, revamp the technological managing of highways, send alerts to citizens and so on. As for the aforementioned mobile app, it will be incorporated within the ambit of the transport registration network, according to NHAI.

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