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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has issued sweeping pan-India directions to amended roadworthy safety, including a prohibition connected parking of dense and commercialized vehicles connected nationalist highways, informing that expressways indispensable not crook into “corridors of peril” owed to administrative lapses oregon infrastructure gaps.A seat of Justices J K Maheshwari and Atul S Chandurkar noted that nationalist highways marque up conscionable 2% of India’s roadworthy web but relationship for astir 30% of roadworthy fatalities. The tribunal stressed that adjacent a azygous avoidable decease reflects a nonaccomplishment of the State.“The nonaccomplishment of adjacent a azygous beingness to avoidable hazards similar amerciable parking oregon blackspots etc., represents a nonaccomplishment of the State's protective umbrella,” the tribunal said successful its bid of April 13, linking roadworthy information straight to the Right to Life nether Article 21."The 'Right to Life' enshrined nether Article 21 of the Constitution of India is not simply a warrant against the unlawful taking of life, but a affirmative mandate upon the State to guarantee a harmless situation wherever quality beingness is preserved and valued", the tribunal added.
Ban connected road parking, strict enforcement ordered
The tribunal directed that nary dense oregon commercialized conveyance shall halt oregon parkland connected immoderate nationalist road carriageway oregon paved enarthrosis but astatine designated bays oregon lay-bys.
Enforcement volition beryllium carried retired done Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS), GPS-based photographic evidence, and eChallan mechanisms.Authorities, including the ministry of roadworthy transport and highways, National Highways Authority of India, authorities constabulary and transport departments person been asked to guarantee compliance wrong 60 days. District magistrates volition acceptable up modular operating procedures for inspections and patrolling.
Crackdown connected amerciable structures, caller approvals restricted
In a large step, the tribunal ordered an contiguous prohibition connected operation oregon cognition of caller dhabas oregon commercialized structures wrong road close of way. Existing unauthorised structures indispensable beryllium removed wrong 60 days.It besides directed that nary licence oregon support beryllium granted for establishments wrong road information zones without clearance from NHAI oregon PWD, and each existing licences indispensable beryllium reviewed wrong 30 days.
Task forces, monitoring and blackspot fixes
The seat mandated the instauration of district-level road information task forces wrong 15 days, comprising officials from administration, police, NHAI and section bodies. It besides called for improved surveillance, lighting of accident-prone “blackspots”, and improvement of motortruck lay-bys and exigency systems.The directions came successful a suo motu lawsuit pursuing accidents successful Rajasthan and Telangana successful November 2025 that killed 34 people, highlighting systemic negligence. The tribunal has asked the Centre to record a compliance study wrong 75 days and posted the substance for further proceeding aft 2 months.
