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June 15th, 2010
Two persons were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents on Jammu-Kashmir highway in Kathua and Udahmpur districts, police said here on Monday.
Gopal Krishen and Vijay Kumar, working in MES department, died and two others were injured when a tanker carrying them rolled down on Jammu-Srinagar highway into a gorge at Prem Nagar area of Chenani belt of Udhampur district last night, they said, adding the injured were hospitalised.
Five members of a family were injured when a car in which they were travelling towards Jammu from Pathankote met with an accident after it turned turtle at Kishenpur belt of Kathua district on Monday, they said.
June 15th, 2010
New Delhi: While road fatalities in many other big emerging markets have declined or stabilized in recent years, even as vehicle sales jumped, in India, fatalities are skyrocketing – up 40 percent in five years to more than 118,000 in 2008, the last figure available. The country has overhauled China in 2006 to top the world in road fatalities and is continuing to pull steadily ahead.
Reckless driving and the juxtaposition of pedestrians and fast-moving heavy vehicles are common across India.
Poor road planning, inadequate law enforcement, a surge in trucks and cars, and a flood of untrained drivers have made India the world’s road death capital, according to a report by Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar. As the country’s fast-growing economy and huge population raise its importance on the world stage, the rising toll is a reminder that the government still struggles to keep its more than a billion people safe.
In China, by contrast, which has undergone an auto boom of its own, official figures for road deaths have been falling for much of the past decade, to 73,500 in 2008, as new highways segregate cars from pedestrians, tractors and other slow-moving traffic, and the government cracks down on drunken driving and other violations.
Evidence of road accidents seems to be everywhere in urban India. Highways and city intersections often glitter with smears of broken windshield and are scattered with unmatched shoes, shorn-off bicycle seats and bits of motorcycle helmet. Tales of rolled-over trucks and speeding buses are a newspaper staple, and it is rare to meet someone in urban India who has not lost a family member, friend or colleague on the road.
The dangerous state of the roads represents a “total failure on the part of the government of India,” said Rakesh Singh, whose 16-year-old son, Akshay, was killed last year by an out-of-control truck in Bijnor, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, as he walked along a highway to a wedding. The truck crushed Akshay so completely that his father could identify his son only by his shirt. The truck also ran over a second man and drove away.
The breakdown in road safety has many causes, experts say. Often, the police are too stretched to enforce existing traffic laws or take bribes to ignore them; heavy vehicles, pedestrians, bullock carts and bicycles share roadways; punishment for violators is lenient, delayed or nonexistent; and driver’s licenses are easy to get with a bribe.
Kamal Nath, India’s Minister of Road Transport and Highways, said in an interview that highway safety was a “priority” for the national government. “Road safety is one of the major issues” the ministry is addressing, he said. The ministry is reviewing the Motor Vehicles Act and, three years after a government-backed committee recommended that a national road safety board be established, it has introduced legislation to that effect in Parliament.
International safety experts say the Indian government has been slow to act. Bringing down road deaths “requires political commitment at the highest level,” said Dr. Etienne Krug, director of the department of violence and injury prevention at the World Health Organization. India’s government is “just waking up to the issue,” he said.
June 15th, 2010
Kundapur, Jun 14: Home Minister V.S. Acharya said on Sunday that the Government was according priority to modernising the police force in the State. He was speaking after inaugurating a traffic police station here.
Dr. Acharya said that as part of the modernisation drive, better vehicles, houses and offices, and modern equipment were being provided to police personnel.
A modern system for traffic management was being implemented in Bangalore city. A modern traffic management centre would come up in Bangalore by December-end. The Government had decided to improve traffic system in the three commissionerates of Hubli-Dharwad, Mysore and Mangalore, and also in all district headquarters, the Minister said.
The department was recruiting 4,412 police personnel this year. The process of appointing 400 sub-inspectors was in the final stage. The Government had increased allocation for the Home Department by Rs. 253 crore, Dr. Acharya said.
The opening of the traffic police station at Kundapur had become essential as the town had 50,511 vehicles. Besides, vehicles from other places also passed through Kundapur. A new police complex, comprising the offices of the Deputy Superintendent of Police and the traffic police, would be constructed near the new Assistant Commissioner’s Office here.
Jurisdiction
The traffic police station would have jurisdiction over 11 villages apart from Kundapur town. This station will have two sub-inspectors, two assistant sub-inspectors, 10 head constables and 32 police constables.
The department had provided an interceptor for Udupi city. Kundapur and Karkala towns would also be provided interceptors, he said, and added that a full-fledged fire station had been sanctioned for Kundapur.
Compensation
The Government had decided to provide gratuity and other benefits to the family of police constable M. Sridhar who was killed while on duty here on May 31. A cheque for Rs. 2.5 lakh each would be given to his parents and his wife, Dr. Acharya said.
Inspector-General of Police (Western Range) Gopal B. Hosur said that 1,000 posts had been sanctioned for the Mangalore Police Commissionerate and 182 posts for Udupi district police.
Superintendent of Police Pravin Pawar welcomed the gathering. Additional Superintendent of Police Venkateshappa proposed a vote of thanks. President of the Kundapur Town Municipal Council Mohandas Shenoy and Deputy Superintendent of Police Vishwanath Pandit were present.
September 30th, 2009
NEW DELHI – All roads in the national capital will be built up using international technology before the beginning of 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG), Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Rajkumar Chauhan said Tuesday.
“Special attention is being paid to the roads which are around the places where the games would be held,” Chauhan said, while inaugurating the work using “recycling and micro surfacing method” in south Delhi.
“A total of 242 km of Delhi roads are being built up with the new technique, which will cost around Rs.2 billion (Rs.200 crore),” he added. The work will be finished by June 2010.
In the recycling method, about 70 per cent of the available material in the road is used and only about 30 per cent material is added to fill the gaps that occur due to wear and tear and atmospheric action on the road over a period of time.
“It is purely an eco-friendly technique and consumes less material. The thickness raised is only 10 to 15 mm. Life of such treated roads is claimed to be 5 to 7 years,” Chauhan said, according to an official statement here.
In micro surfacing technique, cold bitumen emulsion is mixed with fine stone aggregates whose mix is then spread over minor cracks in the road surface.
“Life of the road by this method is increased to 2-3 years. In this technology, the thickness added to the existing surface is almost nil. The roads built by micro surfacing will be waterproof,” the statement cited the minister as saying.
September 29th, 2009
CHANDIGARH – Six people, including a woman, were killed Sunday when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a truck in Panipat district of Haryana, police said.
The car, being rashly driven, rammed into the stationary truck from the rear in Samalkha town of Panipat, about 130 km from here.
“Six of the eight occupants of the car were killed. Other two were seriously injured. We have shifted the injured to a civil hospital,” Samalkha Station House Officer Kaptan Singh told IANS.
“We would record the statements of the injured once their condition stabilises,” Singh said.
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