OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTJamshedpur: The Jharkhand government has identified 16 mishap-prone spots on national highways, six of them on NH-33 alone, prompting the Centre's advisory body on safe travel to recommend correctives. The National Road Safety Council has asked the state government to change the design of bends, curves and alignment to reduce the risk quotient at the 16 vulnerable spots that are spread over Ranchi, Ramgarh, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Latehar and Koderma. The state government, council member Rabindra Tiwary noted, had committed to completing the changes by March, and that it had already started changing the alignment and curves at some stretches, namely, Ormanjhi (NH-33), Chutupalu (NH-33), Chandwa (NH-75) and Balumath (NH-75). The council, he added, had asked the state to introduce road safety in the social science syllabus of government schools from Classes I to VIII. On the slow pace of work to widen the Ranchi-Jamshedpur stretch of NH-33, Tiwary said the Centre gave Rs 54 crore to the private contractor to make the stretch motorable.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2018 22:18 UTC