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72 hours on, NHAI yet to put up warning signboard at mishap site
Updated On: 07 September, 2022 11:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Three days after former Tata Chairman Cyrus Mistry’s death, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has not even put up a warning signboard, leave alone make any structural improvements, despite local authorities intimating them of the mishap spot and its problems
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The accident spot on a southbound lane of the highway on Monday. Pic/Hanif Patel
The fatal accident involving Cyrus Mistry may have shocked the nation, but it hasn’t spurred officials from the National Highways Authority of India to even visit the mishap site, which has been a blindspot on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway. Despite inputs by local authorities, NHAI is yet to put in place any safety measures to protect motorists on the busy carriageway. Mistry died on Sunday afternoon after his car hit the parapet of the bridge on Surya river.
In 2020, NHAI engaged a company to carry out a safety audit of the highway. Independent engineers associated with NHAI had assisted it but the blackspot, where Mistry, was not highlighted in the report. Harbans Singh Nanade, the spokesperson of All India Vahan Chalak Malak Mahasangh, slammed the national highway authority saying they are waiting for another disaster to happen.
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