Tag: Road Safety

New Delhi: Increased new penalties and provisions of punishment in the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 will help better adherence to traffic rules and decreased road accidents in India, the Geneva-based International Road Federation (IRF) said on Monday. The Act was passed in Parliament’s recently concluded monsoon session and has got the President’s assent. It […]

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 […]

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 […]

Washington: India, which has one per cent of the world’s vehicles, accounts for 10 per cent of all road crash victims, the latest World Bank report on road safety said on Saturday. Hartwig Schafer, World Bank’s Vice President for South Asia, said the Indian government in recent years has taken significant steps to address the […]