The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) on July 20, 2023, issued a notification regarding the Guidelines for the provision of signage on Expressways and National Highways-reg.
The following has been specified: -
•Road signage and markings play a critical role in ensuring the safety of all road users. To maintain value-added services, signage should be used to provide guidance, warnings, notice, and regulatory information to road users in well-designed formats for ensuring comfortable, safe, uniform, and efficient operations.
•A committee had been set up by Ministry to review the provision of signages as per relevant IRC Codes & guidelines.
•The Guidelines for the provision of signages on Expressways (Appendix-A) and Guidelines for the provision of signages on National Highways (Appendix-B) for implementation on priority have been approved.
•These guidelines shall supersede all related codal provisions/guidelines issued in this regard.
•These guidelines should be implemented on all road categories of National Highways and Expressways on a priority basis to have uniformity. In the first stage, it should be implemented on all new upcoming Highways, Expressways, and Greenfield Corridors along with Highways having PCU's more than 20,000 and the cost implication on a per kilometer basis should be worked out simultaneously.
The detailed guidelines are given in the document attached below.
[Notification No. RT-25035/07/2023-RS(Part)(221534)]
