Bhubaneswar: The State Transportation Department on Monday requested a police (SPS) supervisor (SPS) and Regional Transportation Officer (RTO) to launch a special enforcement boost a month against traffic regulations from Tuesday.
“Road accidents and fatalities remain high from December.
February due to solid fog.
This period is also known as a picnic season.
It has been decided that special traffic enforcement drives will be launched from February 1 to 28 throughout the state to reduce accidents and deaths,” letters Secretary and Transportation Letter Bishnupada Sethi .Sethi said the encouragement must be done at night too.
Enforcement forces have been asked to ensure that the vehicle is not parked on the road at night.
In the past, a large number of accidents, involved vehicles crashed into stationary cars along the highway on foggy nights, occurred throughout the state.
Sethi wrote that road accidents and death increased exponentially throughout the state in recent months.
“It is the mandate of the Supreme Court Committee on the safety of the road to reduce deaths from accidents by 10% every year.
But death has increased 12% during January-October in 2021 compared to the appropriate period in 2020,” wrote sethi.talogether.
The victim figure stood at 3,637 for the first 10 months of 2020.
Except for Puri, Nayagarh, Coraput, Deogarh, Kendrapada and Sonepur, another district witnessed an increase in deaths from accidents during the period.
The Supreme Court Committee observed that the violation of the helmet law.
resulting in the death of 41%, the state government did not deal with this problem.