Corporates should spend their CSR funds on improving road safety: Nitin Gadkari

NEW DELHI: The roads ministry will write to the corporates including all major automobile companies to promote road safety as a part of their corporate social responsibility programme, union minister Nitin Gadkari has said.

Gadkari said he will ask corporates to provide ambulances for highways and will also request them to spend on upgrading the exiting trauma centers and setting up new one along the national highways.

"I am going to write to all corporates asking them to spend some funds towards improving road safety in the country," Gadkari said.

Gadkari said that he would also requests religious and spiritual trusts to do the same.

He said his target was to reduce road deaths in the country by half. Every year almost 1.5 lakh people are killed in India in road accidents.