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(This story appears in the 01 July, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
The first and foremost thing to implement is a strict rule licensing procedure with both theory and practical test on rules and regulations to follow. We built good high speed roads with no knowledge on what is lane discipline. e.g. I got my Indian driving license by just standing next to a car. (and ofcourse with all "important" documents).
on Jul 3, 2011Life has no value in India. India does not have road standard, road rules. Government is making money in unscrupulous taxes and only setting up toll gates but no regulations, no road maintenance. Lane system must be made compulsory in India. 2-wheelers must severely checked for left overtaking. Mirrors especially, Left mirrors must be made compulsory in 4-wheel and higher vehicles. Lane cutting driving must be banned. Radar must be installed and enforced. Speed limits on highways are two high. May no one cares, it is probably population control.
on Jun 29, 2011It is unfortunate that our law makers have total disregard and lack seriousness in recognising the urgent need for drastic changes in the antiquated rules related to the Road Transport sector. There is a need for involvement of experts in formulating rules covering entire driving licensing process including setting minimum qualifications for the training school & those issuing the licenses etc...apart from the revival of scientific design of road, traffic management, annual inspection of vehicle etc. In the absence of these, all the investments directed to improve road infrastructure in India will only lead to exponential increase in road fatalities.
on Jun 28, 2011The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) should be empowered with Road Safety Management teams at vulnerable places - prone to high-risk accident zones. I would like to bring about to Road Safety Management Authorities to deploy mobile stations as like '108' services in AP at various corners of the country after demarkation of 'death zones' high-risk, moderate-risk, low-risk based on the accidents. You can not prevent accidents but you can try to minimize the number of deaths in such emergency situations by simply offering mobile road medicines (MRM) to injured people. I see in my own state, Andhra Pradesh a lot of deaths on various kinds of road accidents. There are very high risk zones which are labeled as death-zones where the notion is the lord Yama is following your shadow in these categories. Please save injured passengers or travelers and minimize deaths for various trivial reasons. Timely medical assistance is what they need to save accident-hit people. Save injured people and try to turn all our National Highways to Suburban Roads - to Safety 100% zones. Some good people in NHAI and Road Safety Management Bodies should allocate more funds in this category and improve the conditions and safety of road passengers.
on Jun 26, 2011The indian goverment needs to wake up from dr fairy tale start as an emerging power..to become one powerful nation we need road safety n rules that need to be implied by the corrupt politicians who are only concerned about making roads n not giving top priority to road safety. It is a matter of consideration, which if not applied to could lead to catastrophic events n more deaths..
on Jun 25, 2011