{"id":3167,"date":"2016-06-09T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/india-having-highest-road-acciden\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:57:39","slug":"india-having-highest-road-acciden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/india-having-highest-road-acciden\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIA HAVING HIGHEST ROAD ACCIDENT DEATHS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shri Nitin Gadkari –<\/b>Union Minister of Road
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\nThe International Road Federation, (IRF) a Geneva based global body promoting the cause of Road Safety and Sustainable Road Mobility world-wide has expressed concern at increase in number of fatal road accidents in India during the year 2015. About 1,46,133 people died in 501,423 road accidents in 2015, an increase of almost five percent from 2014, while half a million more were injured as per report released by Ministry of Road Transport and Highway\u2019s (MoRTH ) today.<\/div>\n

\u201c More than 10% of the world\u2019s road deaths take place on India\u2019s killer roads \u2014 which account for less than 3% of the world\u2019s vehicles. That too when many such incidents are not documented at all. What is more worrying is the sharp rise in road fatalities over the past decade. Lakhs of fatalities and serious injuries on Indian roads could have been saved if recommended road safety actions are adopted and adhered to \u201d said Mr K .K Kapila, Chairman, International Road Federation (IRF), reacting to today\u2019s MoRTH report released by Union Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari .<\/p>\n

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\n\u201c India has signed many International agreements on traffic and road safety issues including United Nation\u2019s Decade of Action plan for Road Safety across the world which aims to reduce road fatalities by 50% by the year 2020. India is also signatory to recently adopted \u2018The Brasilia Declaration\u2019 by various countries, which recommends the actions that must be taken in order to reach the goals of the Decade and the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. These actions include Stronger road safety management, legislation and enforcement, promotion of safer roads and sustainable modes of transport, protection of vulnerable road users, development and promotion of safer vehicles,increased awareness and capacity of road users, Improvements in post-crash response and rehabilitation services, Strengthened cooperation and coordination towards global road safety, and up scaling of financing for road safety.\u201d Said Mr Kapila .<\/div>\n
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Mr K K Kapila Chairman , IRF<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201c However there has been a lack of implementation of proposed actions. What is more worrying is the sharp rise in road fatalities over the past decade. Many developed and even developing countries have scored big wins by making their roads safer. Vision, goal-setting and political will are missing in India. With less than Five years left to meet the UN goal of reducing fatal accidents, a lots need to be done \u201c he added.<\/div>\n
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\u201cRoad Safety engineering is major part of road safety action world wide, it is lacking in India. Installing appropriate infrastructure to make the roads safer. Road signs, markings and crash barriers should be treated as bare necessities rather than adornments. Simple measures like segregating pedestrians and non-motorised traffic from the main vehicular stream, and ensuring that sidewalks and road shoulders are usable, can bring down the number of injuries significantly.\u201d Said Mr Kapila.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn India, the responsibility for road safety is dispersed among a range of authorities \u2014 from transport and public works to police, home, and health, to name a few \u2014 resulting in a piecemeal approach. All the critical elements that have helped other countries tackle the challenge have been incorporated in the National Road Safety and Traffic Management Board Bill. But the Bill still has to be passed into law by Parliament. Similarly The Motor Vehicles Act (MVA) Amendment bill is still waiting for Parliament nod .\u201d Said Mr Kapila.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 2016, we are in the midst of the \u2018\u2019Decade of Action Plan\u2019\u2019 and have a mammoth task of catching up with the target of reducing road fatalities by 50% by 2020. A strong political will, which is beyond party politics and differences of opinion, is the need of the hour. IRF earnestly appeals to all political parties of India to stand united for the cause of road safety and pass the amended MV Act (MVA) in the coming session of the Parliament.\u201d\u201d Kapila added.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shri Nitin Gadkari –Union Minister of RoadTransport & Highways and Shipping The International Road Federation, (IRF) a Geneva based global body promoting the cause of Road Safety and Sustainable Road Mobility world-wide has expressed concern at increase in number of fatal road accidents in India during the year 2015. About 1,46,133 people died in 501,423 road accidents in 2015, an increase of almost five percent from 2014, while half a million more were injured as per report released by Ministry of Road Transport and Highway\u2019s (MoRTH ) today. \u201c More than 10% of the world\u2019s road deaths take place on India\u2019s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1879],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22898,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/22898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}