Hyderabad: The Mahbubnagar police has launched a new programme named ‘Respect the Road’, to increase safety on the roads passing through the district. The programme aims to check road accidents in the district and to limit the number of deaths.
The new programme, which includes officials from all departments, is designed to address all road safety and awareness issues and will focus on identifying killer spots and implementation of road safety management.
With four NHs, seven state highways and other district roads, Mahbubnagar accounts for the highest number of road accidents and fatalities in Telangana. To reduce the district's record of losing around 1,000 lives every year, SP Rema Rajeswari launched the 'Respect the Road' campaign.
As part of this campaign engineering, enforcement and traffic management and improvement of black spots will be taken up.
The District Road Safety Cell (DSRC) covers these areas of improvement as well as promoting safe roads, safe vehicles, increasing the awareness of road users and improvements in post-crash response and rehabilitation services.
Police will coordinate with NHAI for improving road safety on NHs, R&B for improvement in road safety engineering, RTA for enforcement , TSRTC for safe driving practices and health department for immediate medical assistance.
“Target Teen Programme, meant to educate underage riders like college students with the involvement of parents is also included in this. To educate school students on road safety, Early Childhood Road Safety Education has also been taken up and it will be implemented with the help of NGOs and police,” Rema Rajeswari said.
Apart from these, enforcement of drunken driving laws, social media campaign and sensitizing personnel on protecting Good Samaritans as per SC guidelines etc will also be taken up.
