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 …
The Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture submitted its report on the Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill, 2016 on February 8, 2017. The Bill amends the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and was introduced in Lok Sabha on August 9, 2016.
With over 1.24 million deaths and up to 50 million injuries every year on roads – over 90% of which happen in low and middle income countries (LMICs), road safety is now recognized as an urgent global problem often costing such countries between 3-5 % of their annual GDP and …
India is committed to reduce the number of road accidents and fatalities by 50 per cent by 2020. However, road safety levels have taken a serious hit with the country witnessing one of the highest growth rates of vehicles in the world and rapid urbanisation over the years. It is …
Transport and Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Saturday exhorted people to respect road users and called for strong laws for road safety He spoke of government’s initiative of awarding Rs 2,000 and public felicitation to people who help road victims He said this at a function, ‘Child Safety and Safer …
Account for 32% of the total deaths in road accidents in city in 5 years Accidents claim precious lives on city roads. However, what is more alarming is that a large number of those falling prey to road accidents are pedestrians. During the past five years, road accidents claimed 664 …
Pretoria — Road accidents are costing South Africa's economy R142.95 billion, says Transport Minister Dipuo Peters. This was according to a 2016 study conducted by Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) and the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). Speaking on Monday at the 3rd National Road Safety Summit in …
Kampala — Road accidents, HIV/Aids and maternal and newborn-related diseases top the list of causes for premature deaths among people in eastern Uganda, before reaching the country life expectancy of 63 years. An analysis of causes of death in 2014 done by the Makerere University Centre for Health and Population …
Lack of investment in safe walking and cycling infrastructure not only contributes to the deaths of millions of people in traffic accidents on unsafe roads and poorly designed roadways, but also overlooks a great opportunity to boost the fight against climate change, a new UN Environment report said today. In …
Air pollution may be responsible for hundreds of car accidents a year, as toxic air may impair driver fitness, a new UK study has found. Researchers from the London School of Economics divided the UK into a grid of 32 areas each covering about 7,700 square kilometres and mapped accidents …
This paper estimates the causal eff ect of increased ambient air pollution on the frequency of road traffic accidents in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2014. An instrumental variable approach is applied, exploiting atmospheric temperature inversions as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in daily air pollution levels. The …
Telangana was the youngest state in the country it had the highest scope for better road safety law enforcement. Tampere (FINland): Road safety experts of the World Health Organisation said that as Telangana was the youngest state in the country it had the highest scope for better road safety law …
BHUBANESWAR: Traffic related fatalities in the country have increased by 4.6 percent in 2015 resulting in the death of over two lakh persons. Quoting the figures from a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Claudia Adriazola, the Program Director (Road Safety) of World Resources Institute (WRI) said, WHO’s figures …
RTA’s driving licence test checks only 3 of 24 parameters listed in MV Act. Hyderabad: Hyderabad has recorded 235 pedestrian deaths up to July 2016, compared to 455 in all of 2015 and 420 in 2014. There were several reasons for this. The prime cause was inadequately trained drivers including …
Kolkata: After Monday's schoolbus accident in New Town, the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) authorities are planning to install smart poles in the township. Apart from LED lights, the poles can also hold CCTV cameras, traffic sensors, distress buttons and air-pollution monitoring gadgets. The officials will hold a meeting with …
The Hyderabad- Bijapur road safety project is expected to finish by June next year. Hyderabad: The World Bank has in principle agreed to fund up to Rs.1300 crore for major road safety measures along primary roads in Telangana. The bank is currently funding the Hyderabad-Bijapur road project which packs trauma …
The Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016, which is a historic Step towards making roads safe and saving lakhs of innocent lives, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 9th August, 2016. The Amendment aims to address the issue of road safety and improve the facilitation of the citizens while dealing …
The report contains comprehensive information on various aspects of deaths due to accidents and suicides. An elaborate analysis on causes of deaths due to accidents, inter-alia, traffic accidents; patterns & causes of suicides; distribution of profession, age, gender, education, social & economic status of victims and means & methods adopted …
Reliable data on traffic deaths are important for planning road safety programmes and evaluating progress. Although pedestrians comprise approximately 40% of traffic deaths in low-income and middle-income countries, official government statistics in India suggest that pedestrians comprise less than 10% of deaths. Original Source
Showers on Tuesday evening caused waterlogging in many parts of the city.Jams were also reported in east and south Delhi due to breakdowns and accidents. Even though the municipal corporations had claimed to corporations had claimed to have completed de-silting drains, waterlogging was severe in east and south Delhi.Areas like …
Ahmedabad: Forget those restless seconds while waiting for a traffic light to turn green. Traffic Signal Countdown Timers (TSCT) will be back at 186 traffic junctions in the city. The countdown timers are seen as a major initiative to reduce ambient air pollution-especially particulate matter pollution from vehicular emissions. These …