Government Building 5,422 km Of Road In Naxal-Affected Areas

Government building 5,422 km of road in Naxal-affected areas, 1.32 lakh people died in road accidents.

The central government is building 5,422 km of roads at a cost of Rs 8,673 crore in the Naxal-affected areas of nine states.

Road Transport and National Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told in the Lok Sabha on Thursday that 4,932 km of road has been completed and work on the remaining is going on in full swing.

In response to another question, he said that 8,142 km of Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I will be covered.

Five Greenfield Expressways and 17 Connectivity Controlled Highways have been envisaged for development including a length of Rs.

In a written reply to another question, the Union Minister said that 1,31,714 people died in 3,66,138 road accidents across the country in 2020.

He said that his ministry has adopted a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of road safety.

This multidisciplinary strategy is based on education, engineering (both road and vehicle), enforcement, and emergency care.

The Ministry has notified the Member of Parliament Road Safety Committee in every district of the country.

This step will be taken under the chairmanship of the Lok Sabha member of the district to increase awareness among road users.

Replying to another question, he said 2,284 km of national highways have been constructed within the country in the first three months of the current financial year.

Gadkari said that in the year 2021-22, a target has been set to build a total of 12000 km of national highways.

Chhattisgarh: Force looking for an anti-drone system to deal with drones of Naxalites

Drones being used by Naxalites in the entire Dandakaranya area including Bastar in Chhattisgarh have become a new challenge for the force.

The police are now looking for an anti-drone system to deal with their drones. For this, talks are going on with many companies of the country and the world.

By installing an anti-drone system, the force can mess up the wavelength and frequency of the Naxalites’ drones.

They can jam and even drop them by electronic means. Such anti-drone devices have come into the market in recent times.

The police are finding out how useful these are and which company’s electronic device would be appropriate to install.

Soon the anti-drone system will be installed in the highly Naxal affected camps of Bastar. Indeed, unmanned aircraft or drones are of great importance in modern warfare.

Naxalites are unable to get around the camps of the force, but use drones to get information about what activities are going on within the camp, how many people and how many weapons are there, etc.

This information has been available for the last two years. Drones were sighted over Parodi and Kistaram camps in the Sukma district last year.

However, by the time the jawans took action, the drones had disappeared.