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More radical are dying successful roadworthy accidents than wars, said Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected Monday arsenic helium launched the ‘Arrive Alive’ roadworthy information consciousness run astatine Sri Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy indoor stadium successful Yousufguda.
Addressing the gathering, the Chief Minister said consciousness indispensable beryllium created among students from a young property and stressed that postulation violations had go a bigger occupation than cybercrime, drugs and murders. “Fines for violations should beryllium automatically deducted from conveyance owners’ accounts,” helium said, adding that the postulation strategy needed urgent betterment and technological upgradation.
The Chief Minister said that the authorities was upgrading the constabulary strategy successful tune with changing transgression patterns, had acceptable up peculiar mechanisms to tackle cybercrime and constituted the EAGLE unit to combat the cause menace. He said Telangana Police had earned planetary designation for controlling drugs and marijuana and that initiatives specified arsenic HYDRAA had been launched to support tanks, ponds and canals.
Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy, successful his address, said the run was being launched to trim accidents, deaths and injuries and should beryllium taken guardant arsenic a people’s question alternatively than a constabulary programme alone. He said Telangana had a roadworthy web of astir 30,000 km, with astir 27,000 accidents annually, resulting successful astir 7,500 deaths and 25,000 injuries. Compared to astir 800 murders successful a year, roadworthy accidents claimed astir 9 to 10 times much lives.
He said 935 accident-prone achromatic spots had been identified and that though accidents accrued successful 2025 compared to 2024, fatalities had travel down owed to improved exigency effect and ‘golden hour’ training. He noted that 75% to 80 % of those killed were two-wheeler riders and pedestrians, mostly successful the productive property radical of 20 to 40 years.
The DGP said the 10-day campaign, from January 13 to January 24, would impact students, agrarian communities, women, transport workers, corporates, NGOs, celebrities and the media, with consciousness programmes, training, enforcement drives and assemblage information aimed astatine making Telangana a exemplary State for roadworthy safety.
