REASI, SEPTEMBER 06: District
Magistrate, Ravinder Kumar today chaired a meeting to discuss District Road
Safety Plan.
ADC Babu Ram, ACR Harbans Lal, ARTO Shami Kumar, XENs, police
authorities and other officers attended the meeting.
DM took issued instructions to adopt a multi-pronged strategy addressing
education, enforcement, engineering and emergency care to improve safety on
roads as recommended by ‘The National Road Safety Policy 2010’ and directions of Supreme Court of
India.
Several important decisions were taken in the meeting regarding
reducing accidents, smooth flow of traffic and implementing effective road
safety mechanism.
DM directed the Motor Vehicle Department and the Traffic Police to
ensure condemnation of old vehicles from all routes of district besides holding
road safety awareness programmes in collaboration with other departments for
the young drivers and the drivers of passenger service vehicles.
ARTO was
directed to identify hungry routes in the district for issuing route permits to
the applicants. He further issued directions to follow the guidelines and
installation of speed governors in all heavy vehicles.
The DM directed the ARTO, Traffic Department and the local police to
check the overloading in passenger vehicles particularly during the peak hours
besides organizing mass awareness programmes regarding traffic rules and
regulations. He directed authorities to ensure highway patrolling,
provision of crane, blinkers and signboards specifically for accident prone
areas.
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