Bhubaneswar: The Supreme Court Committee on the safety of the road has ordered all countries to carry out accident speckle joints by motor vehicle inspectors, police personnel and road engineers.
However, his compliance seems to be lacking in Odisha, as seen in a letter sent by the State Trade and Transportation Secretary of Madan Sudan Padhi.
“Most districts do not carry out shared inspections to find out the causes of accidents.
The cellular application, namely the road accident management information system (RAMIS) is being developed for online submission of shared inspection reports from accident spots.
Until Ramis launched, shared inspection reports must be submitted to the Commissioner Transportation and road security wings department of transportation regularly through the WhatsApp group, ‘read Padhi’s letter sent to all district collectors, police supervisors and regional transportation officers, who asked them to strictly comply with the direction of the Supreme Court with road safety.
The transportation department has put pressure on the joint inspection of accident freckles regularly from 1.
August.
Regional transportation officers (RTOS) have been asked to create a group of WhatsApp consisting of police station inspectors, road engineers and motor vehicle inspectors to carry out inspection rsama accident spots.
The government has asked the concern authority to carry out shared inspections within 48 hours after receiving daily accident data from the state crime record bureau.
The government said the appropriate accident analysis could be made after the Integrated Road Accident Database (Irad) project was launched in Odisha.
The World Bank funded project, which is being carried out by the Ministry of Transport and Highway throughout the country, is intended to analyze the causes of road accidents and develop steps to reduce mortality.
The ministry has launched an IT-based solution in the state of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
After being launched, the Ministry of Transportation and the Highway will provide funds to the state government to buy a tablet for police stations to capture speed accident data using the IRAD mobile application.
This data can be used to find the causes of accidents and improvement measures to improve road infrastructure and record accident data for police use, health services and other related departments.