Srinagar, Nov 07 (KNS): Taking strong note of the increase in road accidents in the state, the transport minister has asked the concerned authorities to take stern action against the traffic violators and constitute special checking squads to curb the increasing road accidents.
“Road accidents, especially on National Highway, are assuming alarming proportions. In every state there are standard rules and instructions for vehicle drivers about how to drive safe in mountainous regions but unfortunately our state is not implementing the standard rules for road safeties,” the transport minister Sunil Sharma told KNS.
He said that the hilly State of Jammu and Kashmir is not the lone example where the National Highway and other link roads pass over hills and gorges. “The authorities have been asked go tough against the traffic violators and constitute special checking Squads to the increasing road accidents,” he said.
It is to mention here that that the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has conducted research on the reasons for increasing road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir and has observed that the lack of education, enforcement, engineering and emergency is the main reasons for the growing accidents.
The union transport Minister had advised Jammu and Kashmir government that Road Safety Council and District Road Safety Committees should be constituted to monitor mandatory safety measures for the vehicles plying on the roads in the State.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
State Government has constituted the Road Safety Council but nobody knows what the Council has been doing. Surprisingly the Transport Department is almost unaware about the Road Safety Council of the State.
Reliable sources said as far as the District Safety Committees are concerned, not a single committee has been constituted so far.
“The graph of road accidents shows that most of the road accidents happen owing to the fault of the drivers and only few owing to the fault of pedestrians. It means that the transport authorities have to focus on why the drivers are the main cause of accidents and how that situation can be brought under control,” one of the official of the government said. (KNS)