Nitin Gadkari said that he is in favour of increasing the maximum speed limit on expressways to 140 km per hour.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is encouraging state governments to revisit the speed limit restrictions in urban and semi-urban stretches to provide seamless traffic movement, according to the minutes of the annual meeting of the Transport Development Council. The 41st Transport Development Council (TDC) meeting was held last month in Bengaluru where the Director (MVL), MoRTH gave a brief presentation on the status of implementation of the Motor Vehicle Act across States. “He also stated that the State Governments are encouraged to revisit the speed limit restrictions in urban and semi-urban stretches to provide seamless traffic movement.”
He also laid special emphasis on benefits that are likely to be obtained upon full implementation of reforms by the States/UTs, namely promoting seamless mobility across the country, greater safety for drivers and passengers and promoting online services and ease of doing business.
Recently, Nitin Gadkari said that he is in favour of increasing the maximum speed limit on expressways to 140 km per hour. Gadkari added that while the speed limits for National Highways should be at least 100 km per hour on four-lane roads, the respective speed limits for two-lane roads and city roads should be 80 km per hour and 75 km per hour.
Apart from this, the minutes of the annual meeting of the Transport Development Council also revealed that 24 states and UTs have rolled out the new Bharat Series (BH-series) for vehicle registration.
Last year in August, the government notified a new vehicle registration regime that will free vehicle owners from the re-registration process when they shift from one state or Union territory to another.
According to the minutes, to demonstrate the need for seamless movement of tourists across the country without stoppage at various checkpoints and payment of taxes as per local/state regulations, the initiatives taken by the road ministry have been a success with more than 30,000 permits and 2,75,000 authorisations already granted till date.
(with inputs from PTI)
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