Bhubaneswar: The State Transport Authority (STA) on Thursday signed Mou with Delhi’s Save Life Life (SLF) foundation, a NGO working in the field of road safety, to reduce deaths from accidents.
SLF has been assigned to identify stretches tend to accidents, find out the causes of accidents and recommend repair measures to create ‘zero corridor fatality’ in the state.
Sta said the MoU aims to reduce the death of the road in the next three years.
“Road safety is a very high priority area for us.
SLF has increased road safety situations in various countries.
I am sure our combined efforts will bring good results in Odisha too.
After the improvement steps are recommended and implemented, we hope for their fatalities.
Reduced by around 30-50 percent, “said Chair and Commissioner of Arun Bothra Transport.
Piyush Tewari, Founder and CEO of SLF, said his agency would work on the ‘zero-fatality corridor’ model through 360-degree interventions throughout the engineering, emergency trauma care, enforcement and education.
The development approached the main heel of the Minister of Naveen Patnaik launched a road safety initiative under the Rakshak banner – the first respondent training program on November 10, 10,000 volunteers, living or working in restaurants and different business companies located near the accident-prone spots, trained as the first respondent Until the accident on the road.
It must be noted that death related to accidents related to H.
Ave increased by almost 21% from 3,931 deaths in 2014 to 4,738 in 2020 in the state.
This regardless of the Supreme Court Committee on road safety directed the state government to lower 50% by 2020.
According to the Department of Transportation, the accidental mortality rate increased abnormally by 25% in the first half of 2021 compared to the first six months of 2020, although the lock Covid induced.
Alert with a worrying increase in the death of a road accident in Odisha, the recent center urged the Minister of Main Naveen Patnaik to adopt the Tamil Nadu road safety model, which has succeeded in reducing the deaths from accidents of 54% in the past five years.