Government to launch cashless treatment scheme of up to ₹1.5 lakh for road accident victims

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to motorboat a nationwide cashless attraction strategy for roadworthy mishap victims, offering sum of up to ₹1.5 lakh and a currency grant for Good Samaritans who unreserved victims to hospitals.

The strategy volition screen roadworthy accidents anyplace successful the country, and not conscionable connected nationalist highways, Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said during a two-day league of Transport Ministers, Secretaries and Commissioners of each States and Union Territories here.

AIIMS study

Mr. Gadkari cited an AIIMS survey and said roadworthy fatalities could beryllium reduced by 30% if determination were timely aesculapian interventions. The archetypal 60 minutes aft a terrible mishap is known arsenic the Golden Hour, during which contiguous and indispensable aesculapian attraction could summation the endurance complaint of a victim.

The aesculapian sum would beryllium nether the third-party security bought astatine the clip of a car purchase, and wherever a conveyance was not insured, the authorities would money the aesculapian expenses nether the Road Safety Fund.

A idiosyncratic who brings specified a unfortunate to the hospital, whom the authorities has termed rahavir, would besides beryllium fixed a currency grant of ₹25,000. This could not beryllium claimed by much than 1 individual, Mr. Gadkari said.

Pilot palmy

A aviator for cashless attraction had been successfully carried retired successful Assam, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Puducherry.

The authorities besides plans to bring a slew of amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, which volition see recommendations made by States during the two-day conference. These volition archetypal beryllium approved by the Union Cabinet earlier being brought to Parliament. The amendments volition see aspects specified arsenic roadworthy safety, easiness of doing concern by simplifying regulations, national services, improved mobility, emanation regulations, and harmonisation with planetary standards.