"Today we discussed all our problems related to road safety with the (US Transportation) Secretary. "Road safety is highest priority for our government," Gadkari told Indian journalists during a media round-table after his-day long meetings including that with US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and American business community. "We are taking the co-operation of the US Government in particularly in road safety and intelligent traffic management system, which we are also going to implement in India," he said. "I am very much disturbed (by the status of road safety)," he said.Gadkari said the US has also promised to give "all technical co-operation for standardisation of our Indian code" for road construction, bridges and flyovers. We have 96,000 kms of road length as national highway and 40 per cent of national traffic on this two per cent of road.

Source: Economic Times July 12, 2016 05:30 UTC