The Maharashtra government has raised Rs 823 crore corpus since 2016 till FY 23-end as Road Safety Fund (RSF) but the actual spending on safety initiatives is just Rs65 crore, despite witnessing more than 91,000 deaths in road accidents during 2016-22, data show.
Acting on the directives of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on road safety, the state said it would set up an RSF to raise the corpus by levying a cess collected at the time of vehicle buying and a high-power committee for monitoring the fund in September 2016.
Maharashtra witnessed 91,228 fatalities in 2,31,906 road crashes between 2016 and 2022. Last year, the state reported 14,883 fatalities in road accidents, including the death of former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry.
The seven-member committee, chaired by the chief secretary, has approved Rs 820.04 crore proposals from various departments, but most projects are on paper now, the data show.
This story is from the June 05, 2023 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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