December 19 2021: The Government of India’s Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, IIT Madras and MapmyIndia, India's leading digital data and technology products and platforms company for maps, geospatial and location-based IoT, have signed an   MoU for collaboration on driver and road safety technologies, and jointly launched India’s best and free-to-use navigation app service for all 130+ crore Indians.
The MapmyIndia app, enhanced with the support of MoRTH and IIT Madras, provides road safety alerts to users about upcoming accident hazards while driving. By using this navigation app, users will get voice and visual alerts about upcoming accident-prone zones, speed breakers, sharp curves, potholes etc, to ensure they can drive carefully and avoid accidents. Further through the app, users and authorities can also report and broadcast accidents, unsafe areas, road and traffic issues on the map to help benefit other users, which will be analysed by IIT Madras and MapmyIndia and will then be used by the Government of India to improve road conditions in future. 
Thiscollaboration between MapmyIndia, MoRTH and IIT Madras will drive a series of technology-driven road safety outcomes across the length, breadth and dept of India - covering all 6.3 million kilometers of roads across India and across all approx 8000 towns and cities and 7 lakh villages
Citizens can use the simple and free-to-use mobile and web apps of MapmyIndia, to get India’s best real-time safe routing and navigation experience, when driving their passenger cars and 2-wheelers, delivery bikes, trucks, buses, autos and taxis
 Authorities in the government, road and traffic sector can use MapmyIndia’s powerful tools to visualise and analyse road conditions and road safety hazards in real-time and geospatially. They can further use MapmyIndia’s operation tools to dispatch and manage their field staff and fleet of vehicles and monitor the construction and maintenance of roads and road signs, to ensure road conditions are improved.
Further, both citizens and authorities, as well as volunteers and well-meaning organisations can report unsafe road conditions and real-time traffic situation on the map, to help others passing later through those roads stay safer using MapmyIndia’s app and web portal
MapmyIndia’s real-time road safety maps get embedded through its APIs and SDKs, as well as in-vehicle connected navigation systems, into the most popular consumer apps of India, and are also embedded into most vehicles across India. Thus, the reach and benefits of MapmyIndia’s initiative on road safety can scale rapidly to population scale. All other consumer facing apps, as well as taxi delivery driver and rider apps, and commercial taxi and delivery vehicles, can also embed MapmyIndia’s APIs, SDKs and connected navigation software to ensure all 130 crore Indians benefit from this and road accidents are minimised
These technology interventions and road safety initiatives of MapmyIndia, MoRTH and IIT Madras will ensure the capital and time in road construction and maintenance will be well invested, citizens’ lives will be saved, and movement of people and goods will become safer and faster.
 The free-to-use app can be downloaded  here: mapmyindia.com/move