Ministry
of Road Transport and Highways to observe 28th Road Safety Week
starting 9th January ; Launch of e-Challan and m-Parivahan Apps, Road
Safety Walk and Essay Competition for School Children some of the
highlights
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways is organizing 28th Road Safety Week from 9th to 15th
January 2017 with the objective of spreading awareness about the issue.
The week will open with a Road Safety Walk from India Gate in the
capital on 9th January. Minister of Road Transport &
Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Health & Family Welfare
Shri J.P.Nadda, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Vijay Goel,
MoS for Home Affairs Shri Hansraj Ahir and Delhi Transport Minister Shri
Satendra Jain will participate in the walk.
On 10th of January, Shri Gadkari will also attend a conclave being
organized to involve Indian corporate houses and enlist their support
for the cause of promoting road safety. The National Road Safety Council
will also hold its 17th meeting on 10th. This
will be attended by Transport Ministers, DG Police and Transport
Commissioners/ Secretaries of states . This will be followed by a
meeting of NGOs on 11th January. NGOs would be called upon to participate in the Ministry’s efforts to create awareness about road safety.
In addition to this, the Ministry will launch two mobile apps – e-Challan and m-Parivahan - during the week. e-Challan
is a comprehensive digital solution for transport enforcement and
traffic police that is integrated with Vahan and Sarathi applications. It
will provide a number of user friendly features covering major
functionalities of the traffic enforcement system. It will provide
improved transparency by connecting all stakeholders through a common
system and ensuring data integrity; it will also provide ease of
operations, efficient monitoring through digitization of records that
will enhance the visibility of offenders; and overall better traffic
management.
The
Ministry will also organize country-wide essay competitions for school
children on the topic of road safety. The entrees can be in Hindi,
English or any language included in the Indian Constitution.
m-Parivahan
is a citizen centric app that will facilitate access to various
transport related services. The app provides for virtual driving license
and registration certificate through back end connection to Transport
National Register. If a vehicle
number is entered into the app, it will give full details of the car and
the owner including his DL and RC. This will provide a way to check
genuineness of a vehicle and driver, help in passenger safety when
hiring a driver or when buying a second hand vehicle. However, the user
has to be registered so that his credentials can be established. One of
the ways of doing this would be through an Aadhar based OTP.
The app will also facilitate good Samaritans through technology. They can report accidents by clicking pictures and reporting to
traffic authorities in states and to RTOs, with the option of hiding
their identity if they so wish. They can also report traffic violations.
States will be asked to provide linkages to the 108 service for better
response.
The Ministry also plans to extend the Highway Advisory System (HAS) that it had launched last year as a pilot project on Delhi-Jaipur highway for 2400 km on 12 national highways covering 13 states viz. Delhi,
Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal and Odisha.
HAS is a free-to-air information distribution system that uses radio to
make the travelling experience on National Highways safer, faster and
hassle-free. HAS control centre collects data, processes and analyzes it , generates alerts and sends it to be broadcast by All India Radio.
In addition to all this the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways is also
organizing workshops in the states with different stakeholders to
sensitize about road safety. So far, workshops have been organized in
Bihar, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Assam, Rajasthan and Puducherry and the
participation has been very encouraging. Action
Plan on Road Safety, local road safety issues, State Road Safety
Policy, etc are discussed in the meeting. The Ministry will organize the
workshop in each state by March 2017. The Ministry will also run road safety campaigns through social media such as twitter, face book, etc.
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UM/NP
(Release ID :156190)
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