Overview

• The council, mandated under Rule 215 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules to meet twice a year, last sat on April 3, 2023.
• Maharashtra logged more than 83,800 road accidents and 36,567 fatalities between January 2023 and April 2025.
• Pratap Sarnaik said he only recently learned of the council’s existence and will convene its first meeting in June.
• Transport Commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar blamed the delay on the model code of conduct enforced during the 2024 Lok Sabha and state elections.
• Experts have called for reviving and strengthening the 2018 state road safety action plan with clear targets and dedicated budgets to halve road deaths by 2030.