IndiaRAP passes 61,000 km of roads assessed
September 2026.
Marking Engineers Day, iRAP reported that IndiaRAP, hosted by the institute, has assessed more than 61,000 km of roads and road designs, influenced an estimated US$6.3 billion of road investment, and trained more than 9,000 people at workshops in India. Days later, iRAP and the Maharashtra Public Works Department began star-rating about 350 km of state highways and 2,577 km of rural roads under an Asian Development Bank-supported programme, with training for more than 120 engineers.
iRAP, Engineers Day report and iRAP, Maharashtra project
Agreement with iRAP renewed to make IndiaRAP part of the institute's mandate
December 2025.
B. N. Puri, Director of the institute, and Greg Smith, Chief Executive of iRAP, renewed the IndiaRAP hosting agreement. Its priorities are to make IndiaRAP part of the institute's mandate as a national road safety resource centre, to target the busiest tenth of the road network, to require at least a three-star rating and a road safety audit for new roads, and to offer certified iRAP training.
iRAP announcement
Statements to the UNESCAP Committee on Transport, eighth session
5 to 7 November 2024, Bangkok. Agenda items 3(b), smart transport, and 3(c), road safety.
The institute reported that, with Indian Railways, it has trained more than 800 senior professionals from fourteen countries over eighteen years, and set out how intelligent transport systems can be integrated with national planning. On road safety it reported more than 3,600 professionals trained, a refined system for accrediting road safety auditors, continuing work on the driving licence system of Lao PDR, and its study of a 1,200 km stretch of the Asian Highway.
Statement on smart transport (PDF, UNESCAP) and statement on road safety (PDF, UNESCAP)
Statement to the UNESCAP Committee on Transport, seventh session
23 to 25 November 2022, Bangkok. Agenda item 3(c), safe and inclusive transport and mobility.
The institute reported that it has trained more than 3,600 road professionals in road safety engineering and road safety audit, that it has developed and implemented a system for accrediting road safety auditors, and that its work with UNESCAP on the driving licence system of Lao PDR, financed by the UN Road Safety Fund, continues. With the Asian Development Bank and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways it organised a regional conference on safe mobility and connectivity in the SASEC sub-region.
Statement (PDF, UNESCAP)
IIPA Award for Excellence in Public Services
November 2021, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
The institute received the Indian Institute of Public Administration's Award for Excellence in Public Services at a ceremony presided over by the Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu. The citation noted that, with the Ministry of Railways, the institute has trained more than 650 senior professionals from fourteen South and South-East Asian countries at no charge, and that under a World Bank-funded project it has trained more than 3,600 road safety professionals, more than other organisations in India over the past ten years.
Business Standard report
Statement to the UNESCAP Committee on Transport, sixth session
12 to 13 November 2020.
The institute set out its road safety programme: more than 3,500 professionals trained, a road safety auditor accreditation system designed, a strategy for public awareness campaigns developed, and a proposed regional road safety training programme beginning with the SASEC countries, for which a funding proposal under the UN Road Safety Fund was being finalised through UNESCAP.
Statement (PDF, UNESCAP)
Agreement with iRAP renewed to continue hosting IndiaRAP
17 August 2020.
K. L. Thapar, then Chairman of the institute, and Rob McInerney, Chief Executive of iRAP, signed a memorandum of understanding continuing the institute's hosting of IndiaRAP, whose programme office has been on the Dwarka campus since the first agreement in August 2017.
iRAP announcement
IndiaRAP launched at the IRF World Road Meeting
14 and 15 November 2017, Delhi.
Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, launched the India Road Assessment Programme, hosted by the institute and sponsored by FedEx Express, at the 98th IRF World Road Meeting. At launch, 12,000 km of roads had been assessed across twelve states and 5,000 km of the Golden Quadrilateral were under assessment.
iRAP announcement
