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Achuthanandan’s call for smooth traffic across South

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Chief Minister, V. S. Achuthanandan, has called for evolving and implementing systems to remove the “administrative and territorial bottlenecks” which hinder the flow of traffic across the Southern States.

Inaugurating the 19th meeting of Transport Ministers, Transport Secretaries and Transport Commissioners at Hotel Mascot here on Friday, the Chief Minister said that while taking up such an exercise, the focus should be on common aim of progress and prosperity of the people of the region.

Mr. Achuthanandan said unhindered transportation between neighbouring States was an essential requirement to facilitate smooth progress for development. He called upon the Ministers and the transport officials of the southern States to ensure that administrative and territorial divisions did not stand in the way of meeting the transportation needs of the people. The State was looking for ways for the development of road, rail, air and water transport to the maximum extent and to ensure smooth movement. Technological inputs were being used to improve road traffic. Information Technology was being used to improve the interfaces of the citizen with the system.

The Chief Minister said the rising rate of road accidents and the loss in human lives and social costs and the issue of pollution arising from vehicle emission were turning to be a matter of concern for the Government.

Presiding over the function, the Minister for Transport, Mathew T. Thomas, called for a balance between the revenue collection compulsions of respective governments and the need for unhindered travel of the citizens.

Mr. Thomas said road safety needed urgent attention as the activities of various agencies involved in ensuring road safety was not effectively coordinated. The provisions in the Motor Vehicles Act and Rules and other relevant statutes did not contain deterrent provisions for disqualification of repeated traffic offenders.

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