DC Reasi chairs road safety committee meeting

REASI, MAY 23: Deputy Commissioner   Prasanna Ramaswamy G today chaired a meeting of District Road Safety committee and discussed the key issue with the members and officials.

The meeting was attended by ACR, ARTO, DySP, XEN, CMO, CEO, and other officers. 

The DC took several decisions and issued instructions to adopt a multi-pronged strategy for promoting awareness, enforcement, engineering and emergency care, to improve safety on roads. Several important decisions were taken in the meeting regarding minimising accidents, smooth flow of traffic and implementing effective road safety mechanism.

The DM directed the Motor Vehicle Department and the Traffic Police to ensure condemnation of old vehicles from all routes of district besides organising road safety awareness programmes in collaboration with other departments for the young drivers and also for the drivers of passenger service vehicles.

  The ARTO was directed to identify hungry routes in the district for issuing route permits to the applicants. He further issued directions to strictly follow the guidelines and ensure 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 organising mass awareness programme regarding traffic rules and regulations. He directed authorities   to ensure highway patrol, provision of crane, signboards, blinkers and signboards specifically for accident prone areas.