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"Inadequate pedestrian crossings, subways, and poorly designed and maintained footpaths cause serious threat to road safety"
Nov 17, 2017
"Inadequate pedestrian crossings,
subways, and poorly designed and maintained footpaths cause serious threat to
road safety",
says Spl. Commissioner (Traffic), Delhi Police,
Dependra Pathak
Delhi Police would be happy to work with FICCI on
various aspects of road safety.
NEW
DELHI, 17 November 2017: Delivering
the Keynote Address at the programme, Mr. Dependra Pathak, Spl. Commissioner
(Traffic), Delhi Police said that Drive's Fault has been identified as
the root cause for approximately 45% of the accidents happened in Delhi last
year. Delhi Traffic Police is working on improving the processes of catching
the culprits with help of technology, improvement in road infrastructure,
stringent punishment of cancelling driving licence in upcoming Motor Vehicle
Act amendment. It would very soon be equipped with a new set of guidelines
ensuring stringent measurements to curb the fatalities caused by drunk and
driving instances, he added.
Mr Dependra Pathak was speaking at the conference 'Role of
Corporates in Road Safety' organised by FICCI in New Delhi today. A FICCI-EY report 'Promoting Road Safety Across 4E: The Corporate Guide' was also
released at the inaugural session.
Role
of technology is very important in ensuring implementation of road safety
rules, catching violation, and punishing offenders, said Mr. G K
Pillai, Chair, FICCI Committee on Homeland Security & Former Union Home
Secretary, Govt. of India. All nations across world are committed to
bring down road fatalities by 50%, however in India it has been increasing
rather than coming down. We need huge behavioural shift in the mind-set of
people to take collective responsibility in ensuring road safety at every level.
Traffic problem is everyone's problem. It is our own responsibility to follow
the rules and respect others on road as well, he added.
In
his Theme Address, "Promoting Road Safety Across 4Es: The Corporate
Guide" Mr. Nripesh Kumar, Partner, Transport Leader in Government
Sector, EY LLP said that roads are an interesting place to observe how
people of society interact with each other, but in India, high number of road
rages leaves an unfortunate impression of poor public etiquettes. He
highlighted that key areas in improving road safety are stringent measures in
driving license tests, use of technology, and faster road crash response plan
including behavioural shift on society level.
Mr. Rajesh Mathur, Chair, FICCI Committee
on Geospatial Technologies & Advisor, ESRI India in his Closing
Address briefed the audience on some possible technological solutions to road
safety challenges, and how Geographical Information System (GIS) and other
geospatial technologies are helping road authorities worldwide in finding and
analyzing problems on real time basis.
Later while Chairing a session on "Improving Road Safety
in India: Corporate Sector Commitments and Opportunities", Mr. Amit
Saha, Chief Sustainability Officer, Hindustan Coca- Cola Beverages said
that collective effort by corporates from
different sectors can help in effective journey management. With the help of
technology this is very much doable.
FICCI Road Safety Awards 2017 were also
conferred during the Inaugural Ceremony. Enclosed is the details of awarded
entries.
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List of FICCI Road Safety Awards and Awardees 2017: http://ficci.in/events/23514/ISP/FICCI-Road-Safety-Awards-2017-Citation.pdf
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