Nagpur: Despite discerning 66 accident-prone places in Nagpur town and rural areas in 2019, zero attempts to rectify the exact same may be initiated at the previous 2 years since the District Road Safety Committee (DRSC) doesn’t have capital.
Rajya Sabha member Dr Vikas Mahatme, who’s additionally vice-president of Member of Parliament Road Safety Committee (MPRSC, Nagpur), stated:”We’re working on strategy to conquer funds crunch” “MPRSC has rectified several places by simply taking some corrective steps through various government agencies.
Now, it’s time to solve the matter through a systematic strategy to minimize injuries,” Dr Mahatme said in a letter to Visvesvaraya National Institute Of Technology (VNIT) manager, advocating the best institute it to execute research and assist the board by preparing an DPR of each accident-prone area.
“The transfer will allow the committee to match its dedication towards larger public attention,” Dr Mahatme said in the correspondence.
Officials from transportation department verified that the committee does not have any capital to hone VNIT’s traffic engineering division to conduct scientific research of those black areas along with intersections and prepare a detailed project report (DPR).
“Until DPR of those accident-prone stains is ready, rectification work couldn’t be completed,” said a senior officer.
Citing enormity of this undertaking, VNIT has voiced inability to perform the research with no funding, said the officer.
To prepare DPR of accident-prone areas from the area, the committee will probably need at Rs1 crore.
More funds will be needed then to carry out rectification, stated resources.
The committee will attempt to increase funds from different agencies to fulfill up with the price, sources said.
Another hiccup is that streets in the rural and city Nagpur are possessed by various agencies such as National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), nation’s public works division, Nagpur Municipal Corporation and also Nagpur Improvement Trust.
These agencies are accountable to the rectification of these black stains.
Dr Mahatme reported the NHAI has capital, but other bureaus do not.
“Therefore, it’s extremely tough job, but we’re convinced to find the job done in the first,” he explained.
At 2020, Union minister Nitin Gadkari had shaped a pan-India Member of Parliament Road Safety Committee in each discipline to curb road accidents by identifying and identifying accident-prone spots.
Road corridors of roughly 500 meter span where five street accidents, involving deaths and grievous accidents, are reported through the previous three calendar years or even 10 deaths throughout the previous three calendar years have been categorised as black or fawn stains spots.
The committee believed the information of 2019, once the town had watched 1,007 street injuries that left 250 dead and 1,042 wounded.
Roads under Nagpur rural had seen 843 accidents, murdering 382 individuals and injuring 940.
A study of these injuries revealed the district had 66 accident-prone stains and they had been mapped according to police station and street agency shrewd.
The DRSC had scrutinized the accident-prone stains and proposed both short-term and long lasting steps.
In addition, it identified 19 faulty street layouts and 47 places where injuries happened regularly as a result of human neglect.
For short term steps, even functions just like painting zebra lines, warning signboards, innovative signages, rate breakers etc are completed in rural Nagpur, but no steps are taken on town streets.
The analysis also demonstrated that not only individual neglect, but gradual progress of development works such as construction of flyovers and street functions also have formed many accident-prone areas.
ACCIDENT-PRONE SPOTS City — 24 Rural — 42 Cause of mishaps Faulty street layouts — 19 Negligence — 47 (Statistics according to 2019 information )