Pankaj JainNew Delhi, March 18 -- A persistent winter hazard on India's highways, dense fog continues to claim thousands of lives each year, even as mitigation efforts remain largely fragmented and advisory-driven, according to information placed in the Rajya Sabha.
The issue was raised by MP Swati Maliwal through an unstarred question, to which the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, responded with data and details outlining both the scale of the problem and the measures in place.
The numbers, drawn from the government's annual "Road Accidents in India" report, point to a troubling trend.
Fog-related accidents across the country stood at 27,679 in 2020 and rose sharply to over 34,000 in both 2022 and 2023, before sli...