NHAI has built India’s first animal overpass to protect wildlife.

NHAI has built India’s first animal overpass to protect wildlife.
This 12 km long structure on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is not just a road feature.

It’s a message that infrastructure and ecology can coexist.

This stretch features natural-looking bridges and underpasses, designed to allow animals like tigers, deer, and leopards to cross safely.

In June, a Maharashtra industrialist lost his life in a tragic accident despite being inside a ₹1.5 crore SUV.

The family was returning from Mumbai to Nashik when this accident occurred.

There were two main reasons behind this massive accident.

– Sunil Hekre (industrialist) didn’t wear his seatbelt while traveling.
– There was waterlogging on the highway, which made the accident more severe.

That car had nine airbags, but none of them could save him.

Pune is now the third-slowest city in India, after Kolkata and Bengaluru.

Before the pandemic, a 20 km journey could be completed in 40 minutes.

Today, the same trip stretches to 1.5 hours.

The reason behind this slowdown is:
➤ Pune alone has over 4.5 million registered vehicles, almost one for every resident.
➤ Public transport is lagging, with limited bus fleets.
➤ Infrastructure is not as per the growth in vehicles.