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| Review Road Safety Action Plan | | | Many precious lives are lost every year in the road accidents across the globe, including Jammu and Kashmir. The consequences of a tragedy often endure long after the mishap is over. Road accidents occur due to multiple causes such as over-speeding, use of mobile phone, drunken driving including consumption of alcohol, drug or overloaded vehicle, vehicular condition, poor light condition, jumping red light, overtaking, neglect of civic bodies, weather condition, fault of driver, fault of pedestrian, driving on wrong side, defect in road condition, defect in condition of motor vehicle, automobile design, etc.
According to a study by the World Bank on road accidents, every death in India caused by a road accident leads to the depletion of nearly seven months’ income in the households of poor families and pushes the victims’ kin into a vicious cycle of poverty and debt.
The low-income rural households, predictably, are hit the hardest.
Till date whosoever has come into power in J&K always made tall promises about setting the system right by developing the roads in the hilly areas of the Himalayan region as most of the deadly accidents take place in the regions which are far off and don’t have proper road connectivity.
The need of the hour is to lay down engineering standards and complaints procedures that will help citizens hold the concerned to account.
There is also a need for education, civil society cooperation and professional policing besides muscular enforcement of law through tougher penalties for seat belts, drunken driving, smartphone use and other violations. Road Safety Action Plan needs to be reviewed.
There is a need to come up with a comprehensive policy to ensure that the unfit vehicles don’t ply on the roads and the ones who allow such vehicles to run need to be held accountable. If the precautions are taken and rules are made stringent many lives can be saved.
People losing lives in road accidents and getting disabled could be prevented if the proper measures are put in place.
Sustained efforts are needed to substantially bring down the incidence of fatal road accidents in J&K.
Just expressing concern and then offering condolences is not going to help. Practical steps need to be taken and road infrastructure across J&K needs to be improved to prevent fatalities in the accidents. |
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