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1 iRAD Background and Development

1.1 Background

There are about 150,000 fatalities annually due to road traffic accidents in India.
This high number of fatalities led the Government to develop a system to reduce

accidents and fatalities. Government of India had committed to achieve the
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3.6) of reducing road traffic Injury and fatalities

by half by the year 2030.

One of the successful models in India for road safety is the data-driven systems

approach in Tamil Nadu. On May 18, 2019, a presentation was made by TN police
and IIT Madras to Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on a data-driven

system approach to road safety pursued in Tamil Nadu. MoRTH had decided to adopt
this integrated road accident database management system as a way forward for

strengthening data collection and planning of countermeasures across the nation.

IIT Madras conducted a workshop to discuss the way forward and acceptability
among police in six States to the proposed integrated road accident database on June

18, 2019. Senior officials from MoRTH, World Bank, Police from the six States and

others participated in this workshop. At the end of the workshop, it was decided that
World Bank will fund this proposal, and IIT Madras will design the system, evaluate

performance, have master trainers who will train the trainers to be deployed in each
district, and act as a think-tank to advise MoRTH and the State Governments.

World Bank officials recommended that a program implementation agency be

appointed to develop the necessary software and IT infrastructure, integrating with
existing IT systems used across Departments both nationally and in the States,

recruitment and management of trainers at State and district HQ, hardware
procurement and maintenance, support as help desk and continuous improvement.

After a detailed discussion on the possibilities, it was decided to have NICSI as the

implementation agency. This decision was arrived primarily based on the extensive
engagement of NICSI with various IT initiatives across Governments.

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