Around 17 percent of government hospital beds are occupied by road accident victims in drunk driving cases.

The report also highlights the city's evolving pub culture.

'Nearly 40 percent of those in the age group of 16 to 25 years drink while on the road -- either in their cars, near liquor vends, petrol pumps or parks and market places.'

Drinking among women aged 26 to 30 years has gone up from 24.2 percent in 2001 to 41 percent in 2008, the report claims.

The report also claims that Blueline bus drivers -- infamous for causing a large number of road accidents and fatalities -- as well as truck drivers often drive under the influence of alcohol. 'Around 30.3 percent Blueline drivers and 43.1 percent truck drivers admit to drunken driving.'

Singhal said: 'Drunken driving is such a visible crime but still our system fails to recognise it. Why is it that such a crime that kills lakhs of people every year can't be made a non-bailable offence or have driver's licence suspended immediately?'