Haryana Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma on Tuesday said that the State Government is taking necessary steps to ensure Road Safety and for this it is important to ensure that the necessary, signage boards related to speed limit and the nearby trauma centers etc. should be installed in such a way that they are visible from a distance.
Addressing officials at the State Road Safety Council meeting here, minister directed them to stop illegal road cuts.
During the meeting an action-taken report of all the stakeholder departments regarding the decisions taken in the last meeting of the council held on July 9, 2019 was also presented.
The Minister said that in many places, due to non visibility of the road safety signage, many vehicles are driven on the wrong lane due to which many accidents happen.
He said that in the year 2020, the State Government has set a target of reducing the graph of road accidents and casualties drastically and directed the officials of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation to put signage and reflectors on the KMP expressway to reduce the accidents on this expressway.
The Minister further directed the officers that a provision of trauma care facilities should be made available in all the hospitals located near the highways.
He directed the Health Department to compile a data of private ambulance a further the same should be made available to the lead agency. He said that the every ambulance should have a standard format and data bank. Apart from this mapping of ambulances should also be done. The Minister said Level-I services should be provided by the Trauma Center, hence the services provided by them should be periodically examined and mapping of private hospitals should also be done. He said that presently the average time of ambulance to reach the accident spot is seven minutes, while this will be further reduced to three minutes after mapping.
Sharma said that overloaded vehicles are the major cause of road accidents and the police, transport and mines and geology departments have an important role to play in getting rid of the problem of over loaded vehicles, directing the officials of these three departments to find an effective solution to overloading and issue bills only to the vehicles carrying the mining material within the authorized load limits.
The Transport Minister directed that the meeting of the State Road Safety Council should be held at least once in three months.
During the meeting it was suggested that the services of Saksham youth can be used for survey to identify black spots. Similarly, it has also been suggested that it should be made mandatory for any person purchasing a new two-wheeler to show the receipt of the helmet before making the RC.
The Minister was appraised that the State Government has studied and analyzed the causes of road accidents, under section 135 of the Motor Vehicles Act, and along with this a plan is being drafted for setting up traffic assistance posts, providing truck parking complexes on highways and to provide other necessary facilities to the State people.
It was informed that the audit was conducted by the National Highways Authority of India at 223 places before the State Government issued an interim completion certificate under Haryana Vision Zero.
Additional Chief Secretary, Transport Department, S.N Roy, directed the authorities concerned to develop a comprehensive and integrated mobile app for monitoring and reporting all issues related to road safety such as signage, overloading, speed breakers, crash barriers. He directed the enforcement agencies that a new head has been opened to deposit the compounding fees to be collected by them. Therefore, in future, such fees should be deposited in this head.
Additional Chief Secretary Home Department Vijai Vardhan, Transport Commissioner, Prabhjot Singh, Additional Director, State Transport, Samwartak Singh and Inspector General of Police, Traffic and Highways, Rajshri Singh and other senior officials were present in the meeting.