CHANDIGARH: The Punjab govt plans to bifurcate site visitors police into two wings — management and enforcement — as a part of a slew of measures to curb increasing number of fatal road injuries within the state.
In last eight years, 13 other people on a median have been killed day by day in road injuries throughout Punjab, pushing the state govt to take corrective steps under Mission Tandrust Punjab. From 2011 to 2018, as many as 37,812 other people misplaced their lives in road injuries in Punjab, with easiest number of five,077 fatalities recorded in 2016, followed by 4,604 in 2018 and four,278 in 2017.
This information finds that majority of fatal injuries came about between 6pm to 11.30pm, when no site visitors cops are on responsibility. At provide, site visitors police function throughout normal place of job hours — as much as 6pm.
To increase the presence of site visitors workforce for a longer length on roads and for efficient site visitors management and enforcement of site visitors laws, site visitors department will be divided into two wings and each wing will paintings in two shifts. One wing will paintings from 8am to 6pm and the other from 5pm till 12nighttime. The duties of both the wings will be interchanged on a weekly foundation the usage of a transparent mechanism. The plan will be discussed throughout a meeting of the Tandrust Punjab Mission scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
Mission Tandrust Punjab director KS Pannu stated an action plan has been drawn in consultation with ADGP (site visitors) SS Chauhan, site visitors adviser Navdeep Asija and different stakeholders. “Bringing down the number of fatal injuries is on top of our precedence and we're running on it,” stated Pannu.
Taking a significant note of the prime rate of fatal injuries within the state, Punjab and Haryana prime court had directed the federal government to create new posts and make sure clean functioning of site visitors police, following which the Punjab director-general of police in 2015 had urged the state govt to create three,815 new posts. Three years later, the state govt is yet to take a decision on developing new posts. The provide power of site visitors police in Punjab is 1,917.
The demand for sanction of new posts has once more been submit prior to the state govt by the police. As an alternate, the site visitors police have urged quick switch of cops from different wings to site visitors department.
As inaccurate road design and condition are one of the most primary causes of injuries, each district can have a main engineer for road safety and will be entrusted with responsibility of ceaselessly monitoring roads to identify black spots and take corrective steps. One government engineer (XEN) in each district will be designated road safety engineer and should paintings in shut coordination with site visitors police, National Highways Authority of India, works department and Vision Zero twist of fate staff.
The Punjab govt has additionally decided to appoint 12 motor car engineers to behavior audit of primary accident-prone roads within the state.
In last eight years, 13 other people on a median have been killed day by day in road injuries throughout Punjab, pushing the state govt to take corrective steps under Mission Tandrust Punjab. From 2011 to 2018, as many as 37,812 other people misplaced their lives in road injuries in Punjab, with easiest number of five,077 fatalities recorded in 2016, followed by 4,604 in 2018 and four,278 in 2017.
This information finds that majority of fatal injuries came about between 6pm to 11.30pm, when no site visitors cops are on responsibility. At provide, site visitors police function throughout normal place of job hours — as much as 6pm.
To increase the presence of site visitors workforce for a longer length on roads and for efficient site visitors management and enforcement of site visitors laws, site visitors department will be divided into two wings and each wing will paintings in two shifts. One wing will paintings from 8am to 6pm and the other from 5pm till 12nighttime. The duties of both the wings will be interchanged on a weekly foundation the usage of a transparent mechanism. The plan will be discussed throughout a meeting of the Tandrust Punjab Mission scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
Mission Tandrust Punjab director KS Pannu stated an action plan has been drawn in consultation with ADGP (site visitors) SS Chauhan, site visitors adviser Navdeep Asija and different stakeholders. “Bringing down the number of fatal injuries is on top of our precedence and we're running on it,” stated Pannu.
Taking a significant note of the prime rate of fatal injuries within the state, Punjab and Haryana prime court had directed the federal government to create new posts and make sure clean functioning of site visitors police, following which the Punjab director-general of police in 2015 had urged the state govt to create three,815 new posts. Three years later, the state govt is yet to take a decision on developing new posts. The provide power of site visitors police in Punjab is 1,917.
The demand for sanction of new posts has once more been submit prior to the state govt by the police. As an alternate, the site visitors police have urged quick switch of cops from different wings to site visitors department.
As inaccurate road design and condition are one of the most primary causes of injuries, each district can have a main engineer for road safety and will be entrusted with responsibility of ceaselessly monitoring roads to identify black spots and take corrective steps. One government engineer (XEN) in each district will be designated road safety engineer and should paintings in shut coordination with site visitors police, National Highways Authority of India, works department and Vision Zero twist of fate staff.
The Punjab govt has additionally decided to appoint 12 motor car engineers to behavior audit of primary accident-prone roads within the state.
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