DOGRA HERALD BUREAU
JAMMU, Nov 17
Taranjit Singh Tony, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary and District Development Council (DDC) Member Suchetgarh has urged the Union Territory Administration to initiate immediate measures to bring a halt to the rocketing graph of rising road mishaps resulting in the loss of precious lives in the region every year.
In a statement issued to media here today, the senior Congress leader said that it is a matter of great concern that road accidents on J&K roads especially the National Highway and other linking highways in hilly areas have become a routine feature with the authorities doing mere lip service and paying ex-gratia without bothering to address the root cause of these tragic accidents. He said that had this serious issue been addressed properly and well in time the fatal accident in Doda district would not have happened and about forty precious lives would not have been lost.
Tony urged the Administration led by Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to constitute joint teams of Traffic Police and Transport Department including the RTO to check the rising accidents in J&K.
He said that mere challaning of the traffic rule violators has failed to deliver positive results and in such a situation strict action against such culprits is advisable. He said that instead of canceling the license of the driver and punishing him the Authorities must punish the transporter. He said that in J&K we have lost more lives in road accidents than those killed due to terrorism and cross border firing.
He said that keeping in view the dimension assumed in case of road accidental deaths, today there is a dire need to frame a proactive policy to address this serious issue so that a result oriented strategy is adopted by the concerned Departments in bringing down the graph of fatal accidents in the J&K UT to a bare minimum.
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