India Rewrites the Rules of Road Safety: Akhilesh Srivastava’s Three-Year Campaign Unlocks C-V2X, the Technology That Talks Cars Out of Collisions
Landmark Gazette Notification G.S.R. 466(E) de-licenses the 5875–5905 MHz spectrum for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything communication — a policy breakthrough that experts say could eliminate up to 80% of preventable road accidents and save tens of thousands of Indian lives annually.New Delhi [India], June 20: In a decision that transportation historians will mark as India’s Apollo moment for road safety, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) published G.S.R. 466(E) in the Gazette of India on June 10, 2026 – exempting Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) On Board Units operating in the 5875–5905 MHz band from all spectrum licensing requirements, effective immediately. Issued under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, and the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933, the notifica...