Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
Tackling a million deaths: Paving a path for Trauma Systems Development in India - a presentation by Amit Gupta at CSE round table conference on "Our safe right of way", on June 23, 2014 in New Delhi. Read the presentation: http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/Road%20Saftey%20Amit%20Gupta.pdf
Gurgaon fell in love with Raahgiri when it was launched there last November. Now, it's Delhi's turn. The Delhi leg of Raahgiri will kick off on the evening of July 5 near Khan Market. Raahgiri is a unique concept to free up a section of the city's roads from traffic …
The absence of any kind of measures to regulate e-rickshaws is one of the reasons why so many of them have started plying on Delhi roads over the past one year. In August 2013, the Transport department enlisted the help of The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) to carry out …
Design, Components Of Vehicles Not Tested, Amendment Provides Blanket Exemption exemption from future testing as well. Transport experts say technical testing of the vehicles is a must, especially when they will carry four passengers and 50kg of luggage. A senior Delhi government official said, “No sanction has been given for …
Action against persons parking their vehicles on road side A meeting of the Road Safety Committee convened by District Collector M.S. Jaya on Monday reviewed the new traffic regulations implemented in the city. The meeting decided to remove the median at the Patturaikkal Junction to make the traffic smooth. One-way …
A day after a traffic police constable was allegedly fatally knocked down by a motorist when he tried to stop his vehicle for checking, Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday approved the formation of district-level Road Safety Committees in Delhi. The committees, which have been constituted under the provision of Section …
Uttar Pradesh government launched a road safety policy, claiming to be the first such initiative in the country, which seeks to check occurrence of street accidents and resulting mortalities. Uttar Pradesh is the first state in the country which has launched its road safety policy that deals with ways and …
Road safety is no more an urban concern alone. With the influx of high-speed motorised vehicles to the rural roads severely endangering the safety of road users — particularly of schoolchildren, women carrying headloads of agricultural produce and cyclists — the Centre has asked the States to address road safety …
Motorcyclists Top Death List In 3 Months In the first quarter this year, motorcyclists topped the list of the number of deaths reported in road accidents. Surprisingly , pedestrian deaths figured second on the list. Together they accounted for 89% of the total road accident deaths. Overall, in all types …
Rush hour gridlocks, haphazard parking of vehicles on the roadsides, ever-increasing levels of hazardous air pollution and traffic bottlenecks. All this and more are a mundane sight for any commuter, who struggles to make way through the roads of Chandigarh, a city that spreads over an area of 114 sq …
The State Traffic Planning Cell of the Tamil Nadu Police is planning to identify most accident-prone stretches in the State and bring in foreign collaboration to reduce the number of accidents. The ambitious initiative will take off with the arrival of an Australian delegation for its first field visit in …
Mumbai is hostage to air and water pollution at dangerous levels, and is probably the n the world, ahead of Delhi and Kolkata. Maharashtra's economic survey , released a day before World Environment Day (Thursday), paints a grim picture for the rest of the state as well. Of particular concern …
Metal sign boards, unscientifically placed or in an awkward manner, are posing a threat to pedestrians in Sasthamangalam. The boards, maostly made of metal, are erected along the Sasthamangalam-Peroorkada Road and Sasthamangalam - Edapazhanji Road. Boards of private institutions as well as government organisations along with the sign boards are …
NAGPUR: A host of public interest litigations (PILs) on traffic safety are pending in Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court but with a few exceptions, those have failed to move the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and traffic police officials. In many PILs were disposed of on assurance of officials, but …
Gopinath Munde's tragic and untimely death is one more desperate wake-up call for road safety in India. For me, the news was particularly distressing as seven months ago, it was on the same road-Aurobindo Marg-that my cycle was hit by a reversing car. I was lucky that Good Samaritans picked …
AHMEDABAD: Union minister and BJP leader Gopinath Munde's death in a road accident in New Delhi on Tuesday morning has brought the issue of vehicular accidents and subsequent fatalities to focus in the city. In Ahmedabad, death due to road accidents is a major concern and the latest data shows …
Need to actualise goals of UN Decade of Action for Road Safety The numbers say it all. Every four minutes a life is lost in a road accident in India with 1,40,000 deaths recorded in 2012 alone. In the past decade, over a million people have lost their lives in …
Rural Development Minister and the OBC face of BJP in Maharashtra Gopinath Munde died apparently of shock and cardiac arrest suffered during a road accident early this morning. 64-year-old Munde, who made his entry into the Union Cabinet for the first time after the Lok Sabha polls, was on his …
The influence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – in the international arena has risen enormously in recent decades. These five countries represent around 25% of the world’s gross national income, more than 40% of the world’s population and about 40% of …
PUNE: The enforcement of six road-safety measures, including helmet and seat belt compulsion, will be part of the report that the Maharashtra government will submit before the Supreme Court-appointed committee in the next three months. The traffic branch of the Pune police has decided to step up the awareness drive …
