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SME Times News Bureau | 27 Jul, 2015
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
Sunday said the government will soon implement the National Road Safety
Policy and cashless treatment for road accident victims.
"The
statistics on road accidents in our country are shocking. There is an
accident every minute. And due to road accidents there is a death every
four minutes," he said in his monthly 'Mann Ki Baat' radio address.
In
view of this, the government would soon introduce a Road Transport and
Safety Bill in parliament and work to implement the National Road Safety
Policy and a Road Safety Action Plan, he said.
The government wants to introduce cashless treatment for accident victims, he added.
Accordingly,
in cities like Gurgaon, Jaipur, Vadodara, Mumbai and Ranchi among
others, cashless treatment facility would be initiated for road accident
victims for the first 50 hours after a mishap, Modi said.
He said there would be a nation-wide toll free number 1033 to provide information on accidents across the country.
Young
people aged between 15 and 25 years lose their lives in nearly
one-third of all road accidents, Modi said, adding that parents should
raise awareness among children about road safety.
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