A National Road Safety Information System will be established for providing continuity and policy guidelines to this activity. The Government will provide assistance to local bodies, Union Territories and States to improve the quality of crash investigation and of data collection, transmission and analysis. This would enable and empower the different stakeholders to play a meaningful role in promoting road safety.Įstablish a Road Safety Information Database The Government would increase its efforts to promote awareness about the various aspects of road safety, the social and economic implications of road accidents and what needs to be done to curb the rising menace of road accidents. In order to achieve a significant improvement in road safety, the Government of India is committed to: In the light of this, the Government of India, through this National Road Safety Policy, states its commitment to bring about a significant reduction in mortality and morbidity resulting from road accidents.It also recognizes that regardless of jurisdiction*-s, the Central and State Governments have a joint responsibility in reducing the incidence of road accidents, injuries and fatalities. The Government of India further recognizes that as road accidents involve roads, motor vehicles as also the human beings, road safety needs to be addressed on a holistic basis.
It recognizes that road accidents have now become a major public health issue, and the victims are mainly the poor and vulnerable road users.
The National Road Safety Policy is as under :. The National Road Safety Policy outlines the policy initiatives to be framed / taken by the Government at all levels to improve the road safety activities in the country. Based on the recommendations of Sunder Committee, the Union Cabinet on approved National Road Safety Policy. The Committee while submitting its report in February, 2007 inter alia, recommended a draft National Road Safety Policy. The Committee was also subsequently requested to finalise a draft National Road Safety Policy for consideration of the Government. Sundar, Former Secretary (MoST) in the year 2005 to deliberate and make recommendations on creation of a dedicated body on road safety and traffic management. The Government constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of Shri S.
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