NEW DELHI: The national capital will be the first city to get a share of the Central Road Fund (CRF) to fix its 10 “black spots” which claimed 84 lives in 2014 , the last time such ranking was done. These spots were identified by the Delhi Traffic Police and detailed plans to fix the deadly stretches are being prepared for quick implementation.Sources said the road transport ministry would bring in necessary modifications in the CRF norms for allocating certain portion of the fund for fixing 10 ‘black spots’ in each state. Some of the state governments would come out with such lists this week. Treating black spots with road engineering interventions has been identified as one of the priorities by the Union government to reduce road fatalities.The stretches that have been identified in Delhi include Sarai Kale Khan, Kashmere Gate Chowk (Morigate), Nigam Bodh Ghat, Mukundpur Chowk, Punjabi Bagh Chowk and Mahipalpur Flyover. Mukundpur Chowk in East Delhi had recorded a maximum of 11 fatalities and 12 injuries in only 18 cases of road crashes. Two of the black spots are on the national highways and the rest are on major roads owned by the state PWD.Though road crash fatalities have reduced drastically in the past five years from 2,153 in 2010 to 1,532 last year in Delhi, the national capital still has the dubious distinction of recording the highest number of road deaths.A detailed discussion on fixing these spots was held in the last week of December by the road transport ministry. “It was decided that the India chapter of International Road Federation (IRF) will prepare reports and suggest engineering solutions. Delhi PWD and NHAI will implement them. If PWD wants to take Central assistance, it can approach us,” said an official.A Delhi PWD official said once traffic police accept the engineering solutions, they will start work. “We will be more than happy to get Central assistance. Simultaneously, a task force is working on road engineering solutions to decongest some of the critical stretches for which the urban development ministry has announced allocation of Rs 1,500 crore. Central fund is always helpful for us to execute projects,” the official added.IRF chief K K Kapila said preliminary scientific studies of the fatal stretches have been completed. Report are being prepared, primarily focusing on low cost engineering interventions to prevent accidents at the identified locations. “There have been ample examples across globe and in India of how such solutions reduce crashes and fatalities,” he added.While all these years, the blame of road crashes have been usually put on the drivers, lately the government has started accepting how bad road engineering and design are equally responsible for crashes. Even globally now the focus is to design “forgiving roads” in a manner so as to minimize fatalities or major injuries in case of crashes.