Transport Minister highlights road safety efforts amid 11,000 licence suspensions

Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar connected Saturday indicated that the suspension of driving licences remained a cardinal enforcement instrumentality nether the State’s roadworthy information enforcement methods, with 11,000 licences suspended past year.

Mr. Prabhakar was speaking astatine the inauguration of a Children’s Traffic Awareness Park astatine Government Model School, Aaliya, 1 of Hyderabad’s oldest acquisition institutions, arsenic portion of the National Road Safety Month. The ₹14‑lakh facility, developed successful collaboration with UNICEF, is designed arsenic an experiential learning abstraction for students.

At the event, officials demonstrated roadworthy information norms by means of simulations featuring postulation signals, zebra crossings, junctions, dividers and school‑zone crossings.

Mr. Prabhakar said the Sadak Suraksha Abhiyan run is aimed to scope 10 lakh radical this year. Activities focused connected the 4 pillars of education, enforcement, engineering and exigency response. Accident‑prone achromatic spots were identified and rectified.

Awareness programmes were held successful 183 schools, encompassing 25,000 students. The run besides included 50 helmet rallies, 10 walkathons, 10 rangoli competitions, 50 quiz contests, 50 effort competitions, 100 roadworthy information demonstrations and 100 wellness camps.

Calling roadworthy information a societal work which should beryllium shared by all, Mr. Prabhakar laid accent connected adherence to postulation rules which successful crook prevention lives and urged conveyance users to travel regulations. He said efforts were nether mode to beforehand consciousness astatine location by encouraging students to instrumentality pledges from their parents connected pursuing postulation rules. Selected students would beryllium trained to disseminate road‐safety accusation among peers.

Transport Commissioner K. Ilambarthi noted that 7,000 radical dice successful roadworthy accidents each year, averaging 20 deaths a day. Most victims are young radical and two‑wheeler riders, helium said, adding that the section is intensifying consciousness connected enforcement, engineering and education.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Joel Davis said the suffering of families who suffer earning members to roadworthy accidents is immeasurable. He pointed retired that galore parents inactive bash not deterioration helmets portion travelling with their children.

In a abstracted development, Mr. Prabhakar inaugurated a multi-storey parking installation equipped with precocious exertion constructed nether the PPP astatine the Nampally crossroads.

The move, helium said, was to ameliorate the parking problems successful the city. Of a full of 15 floors, 10 floors volition beryllium for parking, and the remainder volition beryllium utilized for commercialized purposes. An country has besides been acceptable up connected the apical level to bask the metropolis view. Considering the expanding postulation successful Hyderabad, this installation has been acceptable up to enactment an extremity to parking difficulties. This parking installation has been designed to accommodate 200 cars and 200 two-wheelers.