{"id":11439,"date":"2026-02-05T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:46:17","slug":"goi-identifies-224-accident-prone-spots-on-highways-in-jk-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/goi-identifies-224-accident-prone-spots-on-highways-in-jk-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"GoI identifies 224 accident-prone spots on highways in J&#038;K, Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Feb 05:\u00a0<\/strong>The Government of India on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that 224 accident-prone black spots have been identified on National Highways across the Union Territories of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh, out of which short-term rectification has been completed at 170 locations and long-term corrective measures at 62 spots.<\/p>\n<p>The information was shared in a written reply to an unstarred question (No. 1124) raised by Dr Bhola Singh regarding road safety improvements on National Highways.<\/p>\n<p>Replying on behalf of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Minister Nitin Jairam Gadkari said that road safety audits are conducted through independent third-party experts at all stages\u2014design, construction and operation\u2014to identify causes of accidents such as design deficiencies, lack of signage, poor lighting and traffic management issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister further said that road safety is an integral part of every National Highway project, with 2.21 to 15 per cent of project cost earmarked for safety-related measures, depending on terrain and structures involved<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 05:\u00a0The Government of India on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that 224 accident-prone black spots have been identified on National Highways across the Union Territories of Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh, out of which short-term rectification has been completed at 170 locations and long-term corrective measures at 62 spots. The information was shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}