Telangana has ordered monthly road safety reviews in every district and mandated audits by the Comptroller and Auditor General of all state and district road safety fund accounts under a new monitoring framework issued through a government order.
The framework, issued in line with directives from the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, is intended to strengthen the administration of road safety funds, improve coordination between departments and reduce road accidents and fatalities across the state. Transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar said the measures would create a structured system for managing funds and tracking safety interventions.
Road safety cess collected under the Telangana Motor Vehicles Taxation (Amendment) Act, 2026, will be credited to the Telangana road safety non-lapsable fund. The statutory state road safety council, headed by the chief minister with the transport minister as vice-chairman, will oversee the administration and management of the fund.
The government will extend its online accounting system to all districts. The system is intended to allow authorities to monitor receipts and expenditure in real time, while details of the funds and their utilisation will be uploaded to the Union road transport ministry’s portal. The information will also be accessible to the Supreme Court committee on road safety.
Accounts maintained at both state and district levels will be subject to mandatory CAG audits. The audit requirement places the use of road safety funds within a formal public-accountability framework, while the online system is designed to make fund flows and spending easier to track across administrative levels.
District collectors have been directed to immediately activate district road safety committees and ensure that they meet every month. Each district will also appoint a road safety coordinator and prepare a district road safety plan outlining the measures proposed to improve safety.
The police, health, roads and buildings, education and municipal administration departments, along with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, have been asked to appoint nodal officers for road safety coordination within their jurisdictions. The office of the additional director-general of police (road safety) will function under the state road safety council to improve coordination among the departments and agencies involved.
Several agencies will be required to submit quarterly action-taken reports to the lead agency for road safety. These include TG-TMARS, the roads and buildings department, the public health department, the panchayat raj department, the National Highways Authority of India, 108 emergency services provider EMRI, the school and collegiate education departments, the excise department and municipal administration.
The quarterly reports are intended to help authorities track implementation across departments and periodically review progress. The framework places responsibility for road safety across enforcement, emergency response, road engineering, public health, education and local administration rather than treating it as the responsibility of a single department.
Prabhakar said the new guidelines would establish a structured mechanism for managing road safety funds, monitoring their utilisation and coordinating interventions at state and district levels. District committees, coordinators and nodal officers are now expected to work within the monthly review and quarterly reporting system.
