Working with the sole aim of reducing road mishaps across the state, Punjab Government has decided to use high-end technology, besides chalking out a comprehensive programme to educate students regarding road safety norms.
“The use of high-end technology would be ensured to stall the road mishaps and a comprehensive programme would be chalked out to educate students regarding road safety norms,” said the state Transport Minister Aruna Chaudhary after presiding over a meeting of Punjab State Road Safety Council.
Chaudhary directed the officers present to act against the violators of road safety norms using the modern technology. “Breath analyzers must be used to check drunken driving, speed guns to put a stop to the over speeding vehicles, besides weighing machines to check overloading,” she said.
The Minister said that speed cameras must also be installed as part of a pilot project on the Chandigarh-Nangal main road to nip the menace of overspeeding in the bud apart from making optimum usage of weighing machines at toll plazas and other spots to deal with the problem of overloading.
Chaudhary said that strict implementation of road safety norms needs to be ensured and most significantly, an awareness campaign must be waged to educate common masses in this regard. She also emphasized organizing awareness camps aimed at student community besides instructing the officers of the Education Department to ensure inclusion of road safety norms as a part of curriculum and guiding about the same during the morning prayer.
The Minister also directed the officers of the Transport as well as the Police Departments to make sure that no vehicle gets on the road without reflectors.