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Revised global-standard road safety rules soon: Gadkari
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SME Times News Bureau | 06 Jun, 2014
Towards overhauling road safety-control following the fatal car accident
of BJP leader Gopinath Munde, the government Thursday vowed to bring in
new legislation upgrading road safety norms in-line with global
standards.
Briefing reporters after a meeting with officials to
review road safety standards, Roads Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari
said: "An umbrella act is proposed to be prepared in about a month’s
time incorporating various central Rules and laws, like the Motor
Vehicles Act 1988, Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989, Carriage by Road
Act and Rules".
"Such a bill will take into consideration the
latest international standards after a study by officials of the
ministry, and they have been asked to undertake a study on the issue on a
war-footing", he added.
Gadkari said the revised central motor
vehicles rules will be ready in a month to be put up to the cabinet,
before its presentation in parliament.
An element of fear has
also to be brought in for traffic violations, while no one should be
spared for violating road rules whatever their status or rank in
society, the minister said.
He said a meeting of the National
Road Safety Council, where allstate governments are to be the
participants, will be convened in about a month’s time to discuss all
related issues.
Pointing out over half a million people are
injured and about 140,000 die in the country every year in about 500,000
accidents, Gadkari said through adoption of information technologies,
measures will be taken to prevent people taking multiple driving
licenses. Furthur, system should be developed to confiscate the driving
licenses of violators of road safety rules and it should be made
difficult for them to obtain a driving license again, he added.
At
the meeting, it was also proposed that a National Road Safety Board be
constituted with professionals in various areas of road safety on such a
Board, a ministry of road transport and highways statement here said.
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