5 months ago
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Hyderabad
Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar laid accent connected the pressing request for roadworthy information and called for an inter-departmental effort to trim roadworthy accidents.
Mr. Prabhakar was speaking astatine the inauguration of the National Road Safety Month connected Thursday. The month-long campaign, which kicked disconnected connected January 1, is focussed connected reducing accidents and fatalities done continuous nationalist participation, enforcement, and an summation successful dissemination of accusation and consciousness successful each districts of Telangana.
Flanked by officials, the Minister released posters, conveyance stickers, and roadworthy information books for students, and distributed helmets truthful arsenic to underscore the value of pursuing roadworthy information rules. He said that the run would beryllium driven by the slogan Sadak Suraksha, Jeevan Suraksha. This would beryllium achieved by means of education, engineering, enforcement, and exigency response.
Road information is the work of all, helium said, and called for amended coordination betwixt territory collectors, police, education, and roads and buildings departments. Efforts to place and region mishap prone achromatic spots, sojourn schools truthful arsenic to get undertakings from students and parents that they would travel postulation rules is successful the offing, helium said, adding that strict action, including suspension of driving licences, would beryllium implemented successful lawsuit of violations.
With Telangana having astir 1.8 crore vehicles, pursuing postulation rules is essential, helium emphasised. With inputs from UNICEF, the authorities is mounting up postulation consciousness parks successful schools, and transport officials person been asked to acceptable wide targets successful this regard.
Mr. Prabhakar besides said that a related consciousness poster had been released earlier successful the time astatine Yadagirigutta. He appealed to motorists to thrust responsibly, keeping successful caput their waiting families astatine home, and called upon the media to play an progressive relation successful spreading awareness.
