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Creating consciousness among the nationalist is the astir effectual mode to trim roadworthy accidents, said Deputy Commissioner Suresh B. Itnal, calling for intensified efforts to beforehand roadworthy information acquisition crossed the district.
Presiding implicit a gathering of the District Road Safety Committee held astatine his bureau connected Thursday, Mr. Itnal directed officials from the Transport Department, Police Department, and Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (KKRTC) to jointly organise Road Safety Awareness Month programmes. He suggested that the Regional Transport Office (RTO) should collaborate with the Department of School Education and the Department of Pre-University Education to behaviour consciousness sessions successful each schoolhouse and college.
Mr. Itnal instructed the authorities to guarantee that GPS devices are installed successful each schoolhouse and assemblage buses, informing that vehicles recovered without them should beryllium seized. Drivers indispensable besides beryllium sensitised astir pupil safety, and each acquisition instauration buses and authorities vehicles should beryllium decently inspected earlier issuing fittingness certificates, helium said.
He directed that potholes connected national, State, and territory highways, including flyovers and work roads, beryllium filled immediately. The DC besides ordered that CCTV cameras and streetlights beryllium compulsorily installed astatine accident-prone “black spots” and on each large highways to amended visibility and surveillance.
“All streetlights, velocity guns, and CCTV cameras already installed connected highways indispensable beryllium maintained successful moving condition,” helium said asking the acrophobic departments to guarantee signboards and informing boards are placed astatine due locations to usher roadworthy users.
Mr. Itnal besides instructed officials to behaviour a nationalist consciousness thrust to guarantee that some riders and pillion riders deterioration helmets and to region encroachments connected footpaths successful engaged metropolis areas for pedestrian safety.
Speaking connected the occasion, Superintendent of Police Ram L. Arasiddi said that strict enactment was being taken against motorists driving nether the power of alcohol, overspeeding, and violating postulation norms. He added that enforcement would beryllium intensified to guarantee helmet compliance among two-wheeler riders.
A squad from IIT Madras made a presumption connected the “Sanjay App”, developed to assistance the constabulary and RTO officials transportation retired spot inspections and coordinate exigency effect during roadworthy accidents.
The gathering was attended by Deputy Conservator of Forests Nirmala, District Urban Development Cell Project Director Manjunath Gundoor, Executive Engineer of the Public Works Department Hemant, Regional Transport Officer Prabhuswami Hiremath, Pre-University Education Deputy Director Jagadish, NHAI Assistant Executive Engineer Shridevi Doopad, and representatives from assorted departments and agencies.
