Haryana Government on Thursday approved Haryana Road Safety Fund Rules 2015, framed to ensure safe travel, finance related activities and facilitate emergency assistance to accident victims in the State.
The rules also seek to strengthen institutional arrangements, set up road safety information database, ensure safe road infrastructure, safer vehicles, safe drivers and enforcement of the traffic laws in Haryana.
“Chief Minister Manohar lal has approved Haryana Road Safety Fund Rules 2015. Haryana Road Safety Fund has been set up to ensure implementation of the road safety measures in the state. The fund would be utilized to implement schemes, projects and awareness programmes pertaining to road safety and related activities,” said a spokesman of the Transport Department on Thursday.
It would also be used for identifying accident-prone areas, taking corrective measures and steps to ensure safe plying of vehicles, secure movement of road users, providing rescue and post-accidental cares and for conducting studies and re-search on road safety, said he.
The spokesman said that the Fund would be operated by a committee with Haryana Chief Secretary as Chairman, Transport Commissioner as Member Secretary, and eight members, Principal Secretaries, Transport, Public Works, Health, Home, Urban local Bodies, Town and Country Planning and Finance and Director General of Police, Haryana.
This committee would meet at least once in every quarter. The quorum for a sitting would be of four members.
Detailing the powers of the committee, the spokesman said it would be authorized to approve schemes of any amount within the available funds. The Principal Secretary, Transport, would be authorized to approve schemes subject to a maximum of Rs 10 lakh in each case. On the other hand, Transport Commissioner would be authorized to approve expenditure on salaries, and establishment or office expenditure of Road Safety Cell established in Transport Commissioner’s office.
The payment of salaries and establishment or office expenditure of the Road Safety Cell set up in the office of the Transport Commissioner would be made from this Fund. Under no circumstances, any amount from this Fund would be invested in fixed deposit schemes or for given as loans for earning interest.
The Transport Commissioner would coordinate the work related to successful execution of schemes. The concerned Head of Departments would be responsible for their successful implementation and for regular monitoring of construction, maintenance and repairs of assets or equipments etc. financed by the Fund within the area of their respective jurisdiction.
Concerned heads of department would supervise, monitor and review physical and financial progress of the schemes. The senior-most district level officer of respective department would also be responsible for issuing completion certificate of the scheme, the spokesman added.