Traffic jam: Vehicle numbers vroomed from 5 million to 303 million in 40 years February 26, 2020 at 03:36AM

There’s a reason for the bumper-to-bumper traffic on Indian roads. The number of registered vehicles in the country has risen from a mere 5.4 million units in 1981 to a staggering nearly 303 million units in 2019, a rise of 5500%.