Reported by, April 28 -- Roopak Goswami

Guwahati: Assam recorded 4,219 road accidents and 1,008 fatalities between January and March 2026, prompting the state's top bureaucracy to push for urgent district-level interventions to curb road deaths.

At a high-level review chaired by Chief Secretary Dr Ravi Kota, officials noted that while accident numbers have remained nearly unchanged from last year, fatalities declined only marginally by 2.6%, underlining the persistent severity of crashes across the state.

The data reveals a worrying concentration of deaths, with nine districts - including Guwahati City, Kamrup, Nagaon, Sonitpur, and Dibrugarh - accounting for nearly half of all fatalities. However, some high-burden districts such as So...