Minister Gadkari warns of penalties for poor highway quality as AI monitoring expands
· Source: livemint.com
In short
India will deploy vehicle-mounted Network Surveillance Vehicles and AI-based traffic management systems to monitor highway conditions, detect potholes and hold contractors accountable for quality failures. Minister Nitin Gadkari said closer monitoring has cut reported construction-quality problems by 30%, while AI systems will cover about 1,000 km of highways in a first phase. He also linked better roads to a fall in logistics costs to 9% of GDP.
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Tags: highways, road safety, AI monitoring, infrastructure, logistics costs, pothole detection