The Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to constitute a fund meant for road safety and security in the State. The fund would be named as Jharkhand State Road Safety Fund. Informing about this, Additional Chief Secretary NN Pandey said that the Cabinet had approved the rules to govern the fund.
“Jharkhand State Road Safety Fund guideline-2016 has been approved by the Cabinet. All national, State and town roads would be covered under this. Safety and security of the vehicles plying on those, installation of machineries required for traffic rules, spreading awareness and controlling accidents etc would be taken care of through the fund,” said the official.
He also added that 10 per cent of the fund would be sourced from the compounding fee collected by the Transport Department from vehicles across the State. The Cabinet also okayed building engineering college in Koderma on the surplus land with the Koderma Mining Institute.
“The Cabinet has decided to take spare land lying with Mining Institute in Koderma for building the engineering college there. About 10-12 acres of land would be taken for this purpose. The Government would bear Rs 100.72 crore estimated cost coming on the college,” said he.