The five pillars of the Strategy – road safety management, safer vehicles, safer road users, post-crash response, and safer driving environments — has proven to achieve a comprehensive view of road safety in the UN while providing a conceptual framework to our road safety work
At present lots of persons get injured and die due to one reason or another in road crashes, in India alone about two lac persons get killed and three times get injured in one single year. These figures are of those accidents which are reported with authorities and those which never get reported being happening in remote or rural areas of the country , maybe 20 or 40 % more. Very alarming figures which require a consolidate action to reduce is. India comes under the top ten dangerous country which requires remedies all around as per World Health Organization.
We need to think.
although meetings are being held at all levels including UN, but action on the ground is negligible.
lots of funds are spent or misused for this purpose but results don’t show any improvements.
World Bank, IMF , ADB , WHO , GRSP and big philanthropy organizations are funding schemes everywhere but funds are misutilized.
The Government has to take a decision to bring changes in laws, its enforcement strictly , road hazards like black spots, post trauma care facilities and education of masses from a child to an old driver or pedestrians. usually those killed or injured are either kids or pedestrians or cyclists. we have to think of them too as they are road users but not drivers .
mere decisions of reducing accidents by 50% or 30 % or ZERO are ineffective written lines in files. We need to effectively think ways collectively to actually reduce accidents, injuries and fatalities.
Road Safety Committee are formed from National to State to District level in India , but nothing is happening. Even the Courts are also intervene in some states, but their orders are followed for few days and get cooled down to same situation.
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