Steps should be taken to curtail the number of road accidents in the State. The driving licences of those found repeatedly involved in road accidents should be cancelled. Further, the various traffic regulations should also be implemented strictly. These instructions were issued in the meeting of the State Road Safety Monitoring committee presided over by Chief Secretary S Ramaswamy at the Secretariat here on Monday.
Officials concerned were told that steps should be taken to effectively implement the use of helmets by two-wheeler riders and to prevent overloading in all the districts of the State. The hoardings found to be acting as hindrances for drivers should also be removed without delay. The road safety committee should also hold regular meetings at the district level.
The officials of the police, transport department, Public Works Department, national highways, health and other departments concerned should establish inter-departmental coordination and conduct a joint operation.
It was claimed in the meeting that consistent monitoring of road safety had brought about a decrease in the number of road accidents.
There is need for special monitoring in Dehradun, Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
It was also stated that the road safety fund regulations will also be promulgated in the near future.
Officials informed that automated driving test tracks for drivers’ license applicants are being established at 10 locations in the State.
Apart from this, the Sarathi-4 software has also been introduced in eight transport offices with plans for rolling out the software in 10 other offices in the near future. To facilitate assistance to accident victims in narrow lanes, efforts are underway to facilitate motorbike ambulances.
The health department will check the ambulance before it is provided a permit by the transport department. It was also decided that messages related to road safety will also be played in all the cinemas.
Aspects related to road safety will also be included in the school curriculum. Principal secretary, home, Anand Wardhan, transport secretary D Senthil Pandiyan, additional director general of police (law and order) Ashok Kumar, transport additional director Sunita Singh and other officials were also among those present in the meeting.