Ministry of Road launched website to aid drivers and cargos during lockdown

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) launched a dashboard link on its website on 20 April. The website aims to aid drivers who travel to different places in the country.

Highlights:
♦ The website provides a list and details of Dhabas and Truck repair shops available across the country by various organizations like the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), States, Oil Marketing companies. 
♦ The list can be accessed at https://morth.nic.in/dhabas-truck-repair-shops-opened-during-covid-19. 
♦ The website will facilitate the truck and the cargo drivers and cleaners in their movement while traveling between different places of the country for delivering required goods during the lockdown which was imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. 
♦ Regular contact is being maintained with various stakeholders particularly States/UTs, Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), etc in providing information that is then updated on the dashboard link on the MoRTH website.
♦ NHAI’s centralized call number 1033 has also been enabled to answer calls and help drivers/cleaners to find information about the dhabaas and repair shops along National Highways.
♦ It may be stated that these Dhabas and repair shops, drivers, cleaners or any other person in the chain of movement of goods, shall follow all the necessary precautions and healthcare protocols of social distancing, use of masks, hygiene, etc.