CM urges public to obey traffic rules
Source: IT News
Imphal, April 23 2018:
Chief Minister N.Biren Singh has
urged the public to cooperate and
extent support to the Government
in containing road accident
fatalities by simply obeying the
traffic rules while driving and
crossing the roads.
He made the appeal in his message
broadcasted today on
All India
Radio and Doordarshan Kendra
Imphal in connection with the
observation of the 29
th
Road Safety
Week (April 23-30, 2018) under the
theme 'Sadak Suraksha - Jiban
Raksha'.
The Chief Minister expressed
concern that there was steep rise
of 67.9 per cent in the number of
road accident fatalities during 2017
when compared with 2016.
The Supreme Court Committee on
Road Safety (CoRS) seriously
viewed the matter with deep
concern and directed the State
Education
CM ur
ges public to obey traf
fic rules
Government to formulate an
Action
Plan to reduce accident fatalities
at 50 per cent by 2020, the Chief
Minister said.
Stating that the State Government
has started taking up necessary
steps to check using of fake
driving licenses, Shri N. Biren
Singh informed that 10,000 driving
licenses (manual/form 6) and smart
card driving licenses had been
seized/verified so far
, and out of
which 400 driving licenses were
found to be fake licenses.
Further investigation is being
carried out by the CID Crime
Branch to book the involved
miscreants/anti-social elements
under the law
, he added.
The Chief Minister further said
that the Government is also trying
to contain re-registration of stolen
vehicles purportedly brought from
other States.
In this regard, a dedicated
Anti
Theft
Vehicle Cell has already been
established under the overall in-
charge of IGP Zone-I, he said while
adding that the Cell is verifying the
documents of pre-used vehicles in
collaboration with the Transport
Department before allowing
registration.
Furthermore, in compliance of the
Supreme Court Orders of dated
12th May 2015 and 21st January
2016, the State Transport
Department had already notified
the guidelines relating to
protection of Good Samaritans on
22nd July 2016 requesting all
stakeholders as well as general
public to strictly abide by the
guidelines framed by the apex
Court, he said.
The Chief Minister also urged the
public to evacuate the accident
victims to the nearest hospital
without any fear of risk.
The State Health Services
Department had been advised to
make available its ambulances to
accident victims through a common
toll free number which must be
adequately publicized besides
taking up necessary steps to
complete and make
operationalisation of the Trauma
Care Centres which have been
approved by the Union Ministry
of Health, he added.
N. Biren Singh also said that the
Government had issued an office
memorandum on
April 17, 2018
wherein Government officials had
been advised to provide their
official vehicles to victims in
shifting them to nearby hospitals
when any accident occurs near
Government offices or if any official
happens to come across any road
mishap while they are travelling.
The Chief Minister also appealed
to the people of Manipur to obey
traffic rules, rules of road
regulations besides other laws
relating to helmet/seatbelt/mobile
phone etc.
so that valuable lives/
properties could be saved besides
reducing menace of social trauma
to a great extent.
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