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The first World war period and that immediately following it found a rapid
growth in motor transport.
So need for better roads became a necessity.
For that, the Government of India appointed a committee called Road development
Committee with Mr.M.R. Jayakar as the chairman.
This committee came to be known as Jayakar committee.
In 1927 Jayakar committee for Indian road development was appointed.
The major recommendations and the resulting implementations were:
- Committee found that the road development of the country has become
beyond the capacity of local governments and suggested that Central government
should take the proper charge considering it as a matter of national interest.
- They gave more stress on long term planning programme, for a period of 20
years (hence called twenty year plan) that is to formulate plans and implement
those plans with in the next 20 years.
- One of the recommendations was the holding of periodic road conferences
to discuss about road construction and development. This paved the way for the
establishment of a semi-official technical body called Indian Road Congress
(IRC) in 1934
- The committee suggested imposition of additional taxation on motor
transport which includes duty on motor spirit, vehicle taxation, license fees
for vehicles plying for hire.
This led to the introduction of a development fund called Central road fund in
1929.
This fund was intended for road development.
- A dedicated research organization should be constituted to carry out
research and development work.
This resulted in the formation of Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) in
1950.
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