Within the wake of a street accident that claimed the lifetime of an 11-year-old schoolboy on Tuesday morning in Salt Lake, the state authorities will take stringent measures to stop comparable accidents.
The state authorities on Thursday requested bus operators to do the whole lot potential to curb rash driving and steered organising a real-time communication community with drivers in stage carriages for monitoring pace.
The Transport Division convened an emergency assembly with high police officers, visitors police officers, together with totally different bus house owners’ associations, and heads of state transport undertakings, to deal with the rising concern over reckless driving and street security.
Within the assembly, State Transport Minister Snehashis Chakraborty emphasised on the significance of adhering to visitors guidelines together with carrying helmets and in addition urged bus house owners to make sure that their drivers adjust to rules. “Now we have instructed the operators that in case of loss of life of any particular person in a bus accident, homicide costs will probably be slapped in opposition to the errant driver,” he mentioned.
The Minister mentioned that the non-public bus house owners have additionally been requested to get rid of the fee system to minimise rash driving. Below this method, a driver is lured to overhaul one other automobile plying on the identical route for financial incentives by getting extra passengers than the opposite.
In the meantime, a member of the West Bengal Bus and Minibus Homeowners Affiliation mentioned {that a} bus which runs late past the scheduled time may even be fined.
“…we hear loads of complaints from varied quarters concerning the fee system and the way it’s reported to be one of many root causes behind the rash driving by drivers. Now we have to eradicate all elements liable for harmful driving – rushing and violation of lanes,” he mentioned. Chakraborty, additional, introduced the rollout of normal consciousness campaigns to advertise street security and the “Protected Drive Save Life” initiative.
Moreover, he highlighted the federal government’s dedication to leveraging know-how to enhance street security, with Director Basic of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar, spearheading the event of superior visitors monitoring methods to stop accidents.
He additional mentioned that it has been determined to earmark sure factors, which might be marked ‘harmful’ from the protection viewpoint of pedestrians, motorists and passengers throughout the state.
“Senior transport and police officers are at work to plan a seamless community, which may guarantee communication between each bus driver on real-time foundation when he’s on street in order that his motion could be monitored and fast motion taken within the occasion of any untoward incident. The nitty gritty and workings of such connectivity will probably be devised by the officers and IT specialists,” he mentioned.
Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, who was additionally current on the assembly mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had personally known as him to investigate concerning the steps being taken to deal with the problem. Hakim steered the implementation of a Customary Working Process to manage the variety of buses working on particular routes at particular instances. He emphasised on the necessity for a strong visitors monitoring system to be overseen by the DGP.
Joint Council of Bus Syndicate normal secretary Tapan Banerjee mentioned the state authorities mustn’t ignore the bottom realities like encroachment of pavement by hawkers, clogging of roads by autorickshaws and different slow-moving automobiles.
The schoolboy was on a scooter along with his mom, when a rushing bus, allegedly racing with one other, hit the scooter and as a result of collision the boy fell on the street, which led to his loss of life. — WITH PTI
