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Road safety must be made part of curriculum: Yogi

PNS

Reiterating his Government’s commitment towards providing better transport facility to passengers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that road safety should be a part of curriculum as hundreds of innocent lives were lost due to accidents. Yogi was speaking at a function where Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation signed an MoU with its Rajasthan counterpart to run Government buses on 199 routes between the two States. The MoU was signed between UP Transport Minister Swantra Deo Singh and Rajasthan Transport Minister Yunus Khan in lucknow.

“Journeys are indicator of progress. But these journeys should be safe. Many lives are lost in road accidents. Road safety should be made a part of curriculum and a proposal for this should come from transport department,” the Chief Minister said.