BHUBANESWAR: The transport division has ready a five-year road-safety motion plan to reduce accidents and fatalities.
The division has made up our minds to open sensitization centres in districts to spread awareness a number of the other folks on road-safety regulations. Mobile trucks supplied with video walls will transfer in the districts to coach commuters at the penal provisions for violation of the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act.
"We have drawn a comprehensive road-safety action plan, which envisions the roles of individual departments of the state government in preventing accidents and fatalities. The plan will be circulated to the concerned departments such as home (police), works, health and family welfare, school and mass education and excise," state transport commissioner Sanjeeb Panda mentioned.
The motion plan lays pressure on tactics to reduce fatalities. While regional transport officers and police had been given goals to penalize traffic violators, the works division has been requested to rectify faults in avenue engineering and design.
According to the motion plan, the transport division will stay an eye fixed on accident-prone zones (black spots) and save you recurrence of mishaps in those puts. The health division's role includes the established order of more accident traumacare centres and mobilization of ambulances on highways. The motion plan highlights the need of sensitizing faculty and school students to avenue safety.
Sources mentioned the state government ultimate week authorized the road-safety motion plan and requested the transport division to open sensitisation centres and mobilize trucks to coach other folks about road-safety norms. The Supreme Court committee on avenue safety, headed via justice K S Radhakrishnan, has been pulling up the state government for the rise in avenue deaths. The committee has requested the state government to set a goal to reduce the fatality price via 2020.
Despite large awareness campaigns and enforcement activities, fatalities because of avenue accidents in the state has proven no indicators of a let-up. Sources mentioned 4,790 other folks died in accidents across the state in 2017 as in opposition to 4,463 in 2016. A complete of three,817 other folks died in 2018 (until September). On November 20, a minimum of 10 passengers of a bus died after it plunged into the Mahanadi in Cuttack.
The transport division recently constituted a six-member committee to plan road-safety measures. Headed via a transport joint commissioner, the committee has an government engineer from the works division, a deputy superintendent of police, a scientific officer of the rank of assistant surgeon, a junior lecturer or block schooling officer and a transport reputable.
The division has made up our minds to open sensitization centres in districts to spread awareness a number of the other folks on road-safety regulations. Mobile trucks supplied with video walls will transfer in the districts to coach commuters at the penal provisions for violation of the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act.
"We have drawn a comprehensive road-safety action plan, which envisions the roles of individual departments of the state government in preventing accidents and fatalities. The plan will be circulated to the concerned departments such as home (police), works, health and family welfare, school and mass education and excise," state transport commissioner Sanjeeb Panda mentioned.
The motion plan lays pressure on tactics to reduce fatalities. While regional transport officers and police had been given goals to penalize traffic violators, the works division has been requested to rectify faults in avenue engineering and design.
According to the motion plan, the transport division will stay an eye fixed on accident-prone zones (black spots) and save you recurrence of mishaps in those puts. The health division's role includes the established order of more accident traumacare centres and mobilization of ambulances on highways. The motion plan highlights the need of sensitizing faculty and school students to avenue safety.
Sources mentioned the state government ultimate week authorized the road-safety motion plan and requested the transport division to open sensitisation centres and mobilize trucks to coach other folks about road-safety norms. The Supreme Court committee on avenue safety, headed via justice K S Radhakrishnan, has been pulling up the state government for the rise in avenue deaths. The committee has requested the state government to set a goal to reduce the fatality price via 2020.
Despite large awareness campaigns and enforcement activities, fatalities because of avenue accidents in the state has proven no indicators of a let-up. Sources mentioned 4,790 other folks died in accidents across the state in 2017 as in opposition to 4,463 in 2016. A complete of three,817 other folks died in 2018 (until September). On November 20, a minimum of 10 passengers of a bus died after it plunged into the Mahanadi in Cuttack.
The transport division recently constituted a six-member committee to plan road-safety measures. Headed via a transport joint commissioner, the committee has an government engineer from the works division, a deputy superintendent of police, a scientific officer of the rank of assistant surgeon, a junior lecturer or block schooling officer and a transport reputable.
Transport officials prepare five-year plan to improve road safety
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