Road Safety-Being Sane On Streets
May 22, 2019 • 57 views
A graphical representation of India's statistics in road fatalities
Road Safety. Sounds funny?
Well it isn’t. Especially if one dwells into the statistics of road accidents in India with an average one death in every four minutes quoted from NDTV 2016 report, three years back statistics.
What needs to be done on our part?
Things are fundamental in understanding how to keep one as well as others safe while walking or travelling via means of any transportation and certainly unawareness isn’t the reason.
The quality of roads and safety technology installed in the vehicles is another matter of concern especially in India which still hasn’t reached to a fine position in this arena and there’s a lot to work on especially the sense people carry on roads. It’s funny and absolutely chaotic.
What needs to be done is pretty simple and demands miniscule efforts. ‘Care more for your life’ and surely a large share of the job of making Indian streets safer is done. That will bring in enhancing one’s skills as well as control, keeping oneself equipped as much as possible, and sane. Nothing is more valuable than your existence as well as your presence to your dear ones and last but not the least, ‘Enjoy your ride’.
Preaching is not the purpose but being more conscious.
What has been done in this arena on a social level?
When it comes to what India is doing to put the brakes to the scary number of road accidents recorded each year, facts and figures associated with the change aren’t that saddening.
Amendments to the Motor vehicles Act in 2017 being passed by Lok Sabha that works on making the roads safer by a strict regulation as well as organisation though the biggest challenge would be its enforcement.
Implementation of the the National road safety policy in the last five years.
Increase in awareness campaigns post 2015 especially due to the alarming figures that year that has managed to bring a slight drop by 3.27% in road crashes and 1.9% in fatalities in 2017.
The Bharatmala Pariyojana Scheme brought in 2017 works in making the quintessential engineering changes required to make the Indian roads as well as the infrastructure associated with it safer. A sum of 5.6 lakhs crores rupees has been allotted for the same.
The signing of the Brasilia declaration in 2015 by India committing to reduce fatalities by half though the current figures are far away from the target.
Nonetheless, the pathway to better and safer roads in India demands a multipronged approach where from the government it is expected to design as well as build better infrastructure which is fundamental to the cause when studied what makes other countries safer than India as well as from our part to ensure our safety by adopting basic measures the next time we are on roads.
Webliography:
https://savelifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MVA-Bill-2017-Analysis.pdf
http://morth-roadsafety.nic.in/index1.aspx?lsid=488&lev=2&lid=439&langid=1
https://www.india.gov.in/spotlight/bharatmala-pariyojana-stepping-stone-towards-new-india
https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_traffic/Brasilia_Declaration/en/
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