The 21-member road safety body, chaired by Delhi Transport minister Kailash Gahlot, met for the first time after its reconstitution in July.
Devising a full fledged policy on safe transportation of school children and freeing up pavements from encroachment to facilitate pedestrians were a few important decisions taken in Delhi’s Road Safety Council meeting held on Thursday.
The 21-member road safety body, chaired by Delhi Transport minister Kailash Gahlot, met for the first time after its reconstitution in July.
Emphasising on safety of school children, the minister said the Council has decided to come up with a “comprehensive full fledged” policy for their safe transportation.
Gahlot said that the decisions taken by the Council also included eliminating the 141 identified black spots -- stretches of roads that witness at least three fatal accidents in a year -- in the next four months.
The transport minister said that the Council decided to set up a committee to act as “lead agency” with a few sub committees. “The Committee will have officials from Transport and Delhi Police besides technical and professional experts as its members. It will scientifically study each fatal accident in the city to find ways to minimise loss of life,” Gahlot said.
The committee will also hold meetings of concerned departments on behalf of the Road Safety Council and coordinate with district-level road safety committees chaired by district magistrates, he said.
The road safety committees will be asked to take “suo motu” cognizance of encroachment of pavements under their jurisdictions and remove these impediments to facilitate the pedestrians, the minister said.
The Council also decided to carry out safety audit of all the roads in the city with the help of expert agencies like Central Road Research Institute, and School of Planning and Architecture.
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