Tag: Mva 2019

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Are police picking low-hanging fruits than rooting out factors behind fatal mishaps?

Bhubaneswar: While the amended Motor Vehicle Act (MVA) 2019 is being implemented to ensure road safety and curb the rising fatalities on the road, however, for the last 96 hours, none in Odisha was penalised for over speeding or overloading. In fact, speed is the prime culprit behind the road accidents, as nearly 60 per […]

  • Monday, 26 April 2021
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2,788 road fatalities in Odisha in 2018 for not using helmets, seat-belts!

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s tryst with the new Motor Vehicles Act (MVA) has turned out to be a soap opera of the year, with people virtually spending sleepless nights on roads and CM Naveen Patnaik recommending another extension, albeit with a rider of no more extension. The moot point here is, in implementing the amended motor Vehicles […]

  • Thursday, 22 April 2021
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Government roads, potholes killed 1,046 in Odisha in 2018!

Bhubaneswar: When the new MVA act has put the glare on accidents caused by human error, the shocker is nonchalant attitude of government-owned road utilities (Odisha Works department, Municipal and National Highway Authorities) killed nearly 3 lives every day in 2018. Poor road features account for 19 per cent of road fatalities in Odisha. As […]

  • Thursday, 22 April 2021
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