The Haryana Government has formulated its new road safety policy. With 2015 as the base year, the policy aims at bringing down the rate of deaths and injured in road accidents upto 50 per cent by the year 2025.
The new road safety policy would be jointly implemented by the concerned Departments like Police, Public Works (Building and Roads), Education and Health for better road safety management, said a spokesman of the Transport Department .
A day before, Haryana Government had announced to conduct a study in collaboration with National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), to analyse different aspects of road safety so as to ensure zero road fatalities and promote road safety initiatives in the state.
The spokesman said that the Transport Department has launched e-payment facility for tax payment of transport vehicles and state’s fourth Driving Training and Research Institute is being set up at village Kaluwas in district Bhiwani.
A State Road Safety Council and District Road Safety Committees have been constituted for road safety. Apart from this, an operation committee headed by Chief Secretary has also been constituted, he said.
To ensure complete transparency in revenue collection, he said that e-payment facility has been launched through State Bank of India for payment of road tax of transport vehicles. This facility has been made available in all offices of Secretary, Regional Transport Authority and Registered Authority since July 2016.
To set up state’s fourth Driving Training and Research Institute at village Kaluwas in district Bhiwani, the village panchayat has provided more than 80 kanal land for this
institute on lease of rupee one per acre. The boundary wall of the institute has already been
constructed, said the
spokesman.
With a view to ensure road worthiness of vehicles, he said that a modern Inspection and Testing Centre for vehicles is being set up at a cost of Rs 14.40 crore with the assistance of Central Government at village Kanheli in district Rohtak. The Centre’s capacity to conduct inspection and testing of vehicles would be 1.25 lakh to 1.50 lakh per year, said he.
He said that Driver’s Training and Research Institute would also be set up at village Chhapera in district Nuh and village Bahin in district Palwal. The government has approved to engage Maruti Suzuki India ltd. for the construction and operation of both these ambitious projects, he added.
Notably, as many as 5,250 persons had died while 11,564 were injured in road accidents between January 1, 2015 and January 31, 2016. As many as 8,912 vehicles which had caused accidents were traced and 8,849 drivers were
arrested.
The road accidents account for a large number of deaths and injuries every year in Haryana. Haryana had witnessed 15679 accidental deaths in the year 2014.