Other States - Haryana   

New road safety policy soon: Hooda

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Monday that the State Government was planning to formulate a Road Safety Policy and create a Road Safety Fund to provide better road safety facilities and check the increasing incidence of road accidents.

Addressing the closing ceremony of a function organised on the occasion of 19th National Road Safety Week in Gurgaon, Mr. Hooda expressed concern over the increasing number of fatalities in road accidents.

He pointed out that over 3,500 deaths were reported in Haryana due to road accidents every year.

This, he said, could be prevented to a large extent if the people followed the traffic rules and did not allow their young children to drive vehicles.

Mr. Hooda said the Government would set up five drivers’ training schools, including three bigger ones, so that efficient drivers could be produced. Besides, modern equipment of road safety would be made available to the traffic police especially in the NCR region where there was heavy traffic congestion due to a rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the roads.

Underlining the need for improving traffic surveillance, Mr. Hooda said that separate recruitment of traffic police personnel would be made soon.

Transport Minister Mange Ram Gupta said that self-discipline was the best way to avoid road accidents.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

New road safety policy soon: Hooda

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu