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Supreme Court tells States to upload road-accident data on the eDAR portal
खबर में क्यों?
One portal for every road crash: the eDAR order GS2 aspirants must link to road safety policy
A Supreme Court order pushes States towards a single road-crash data system.
Why it matters: factual, Prelims-type
What you need to know
2 मिनट
On 8 October 2026 the Supreme Court directed States to upload road-accident data promptly on the Electronic Detailed Accident Report (eDAR) portal.
The aim is a national road-crash data system that supports analysis and policy.
स्रोत: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
मुख्य तथ्य
Remember these
- On 8 October 2026 the Supreme Court directed States to upload road-accident data promptly on the eDAR portal
- eDAR stands for Electronic Detailed Accident Report
- Aim: a single national road-crash data system to support analysis and policy
- Road safety falls under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) at the Union level; roads and road transport also have State-level roles
- The Supreme Court has read the right to life under Article 21 to include safe roads and road-safety concerns
प्रीलिम्स · मेन्स
How the exam will ask it
प्रीलिम्स
- eDAR is an electronic format for reporting detailed road-accident information, which States are to upload on a common portal.
- The Supreme Court directed States to upload road-accident data on the eDAR portal promptly.
- Road-accident data collected uniformly across States can support evidence-based road safety policy at the national level.
मेन्स
GS2 (Governance, Judiciary and policy) and road safety. Issue: fragmented, delayed accident data across States hampers analysis. Policy: the Supreme Court's direction to upload data on eDAR builds on MoRTH's data and road-safety framework. Implication: reliable data enables identification of black spots and targeted interventions; way forward is timely State compliance, data quality checks, integration with police, hospitals and insurers, and use of the data for enforcement and design fixes.
Quick recall
Answer before you reveal
Under Karnataka's Gruha Lakshmi scheme, the monthly assistance of ₹2,000 is paid to:
- Every woman above 18 years of age
- The woman head of an eligible family
- Girl students in government colleges
- Women entrepreneurs registered as MSMEs
उत्तर देखें
उत्तर: B — Correct: The woman head of an eligible family — Gruha Lakshmi pays ₹2,000 a month to the woman head of each eligible family. • Every woman above 18 years of age — wrong: The scheme is not paid to every adult woman; it targets one woman per eligible family. • Girl students in government colleges — wrong: Girl students are not the target group; scholarships serve them separately. • Women entrepreneurs registered as MSMEs — wrong: MSME-registered women entrepreneurs are covered by industry schemes, not Gruha Lakshmi.
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