{"id":1138,"date":"2025-07-03T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:45:57","slug":"ministry-of-road-transport-and-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/state-institutions\/ministry-of-road-transport-and-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Road Transport and Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways&nbsp;Transport Bhawan, 1, Parliament Street&nbsp;New Delhi-110001<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>About us<\/h1>\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>An apex organisation under the Central Government, is entrusted with the task of formulating and administering, in consultation with other Central Ministries\/Departments, State Governments\/UT Administrations, organisations and individuals, policies for Road Transport, National Highways and Transport Research with a view to increasing the mobility and efficiency of the road transport system in the country. The Ministry has two wings: Roads wing and Transport wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"headingclass\"><strong>Road Wing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deals with development and maintenance of National Highway in the country<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"headingclass\"><strong>Main Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Planning, development and maintenance of National Highways in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Extends technical and financial support to State Governments for the development of state roads and the roads of inter-state connectivity and economic importance<\/li>\n<li>Evolves standard specifications for roads and bridges in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Serves as a repository of technical knowledge on roads and bridges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"headingclass\"><strong>Transport Wing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deals with matter relating to Road Transport&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"headingclass\"><strong>Main Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Motor Vehicle legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Administration of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Taxation of motor vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Compulsory insurance of motor vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Administration of the Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950.<\/li>\n<li>And promotion of Transport co-operatives in the field of motor transport.<\/li>\n<li>Evolves road safety standards in the form of a National Policy on Road Safety and by preparing and implementing the Annual Road Safety Plan.<\/li>\n<li>Collects, compiles and analyses road accident statistics and takes steps for developing a Road Safety Culture in the country by involving the members of public and organising various awareness campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>Provides grants-in-aid to Non-Governmental Organisations in accordance with the laid down guidelines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Information and photos taken from the site: morth.nic.in<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways&nbsp;Transport Bhawan, 1, Parliament Street&nbsp;New Delhi-110001 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; About us An apex organisation under the Central Government, is entrusted with the task of formulating and administering, in consultation with other Central Ministries\/Departments, State Governments\/UT Administrations, organisations and individuals, policies for Road Transport, National Highways and Transport Research [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-institutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}