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Superintendent of Police (SP) P. Jagadeesh connected Tuesday launched a five-day roadworthy information ngo aimed astatine inculcating consciousness connected roadworthy information among the citizens.
The initiative, launched arsenic portion of Road Safety Month, involves assorted consciousness programmes crossed the territory till January 31 and is aimed astatine making the territory accident-free. According to the SP, NGOs, NCC, schools and colleges, petrol filling presumption managements, driving schools, and others volition beryllium progressive successful the initiative.
Mr. Jagadeesh said that 34 achromatic spots and 27 accident-prone areas person been identified successful the district. He said the fig of accidents has decreased successful 2025 compared to the erstwhile years, but respective radical inactive mislaid their lives.
“We identified that utilizing mobile phones portion driving, wrong-side driving, driving without helmet oregon a seatbelt, overspeeding, drunk driving are the reasons for the accidents. Majority of accidents are taking spot betwixt 3 p.m. and 12 a.m., and they are peculiarly much betwixt 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.. We person to instrumentality steps to forestall roadworthy accidents and nonaccomplishment of lives,” helium said.
Mr. Jagadeesh said the ngo aimed astatine creating consciousness connected roadworthy safety, roadworthy accidents and fatalities. People volition beryllium encouraged to travel postulation rules, helium added. As portion of the initiative, roadworthy information training, workshops, consciousness meetings successful schools and colleges, rallies, oculus tests to drivers and different programmes volition beryllium held.
Simultaneously, the constabulary volition enforce drives against hemletless driving, drunk driving, overloading of vehicles and different violations. Action volition besides beryllium taken to rectify blackspots, instal velocity breakers and zebra crossings, and different roadworthy infrastructure facilities.
“The extremity of Road Safety Mission is to guarantee that not a azygous mishap takes spot and each travel is simply a harmless one,” Mr. Jagadeesh said. Posters and a opus connected roadworthy information measures were launched connected the occasion.
