Officials Told To Study Tamil Nadu Model For Reducing Road Accidents

Minister for Health and Family Welfare T Harish Rao today directed the officials concerned to study the Tamil Nadu model to reduce the road fatalities that had worked well in that State.

Rao presided over a meeting on road safety measures to be taken up in Siddipet district. Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari, R & B Secretary Srinivas Raju, Health Secretary Rizvi, Commissioner of Transport Buddha Prakash Jyothi, and officials from the police, R & B, transport and health departments attended the meeting.

Siddipet CP Sweta presented a comparative analysis on road accidents in Siddipet district. Officials also briefed the minister about the various black spots identified in the district and the measures taken to prevent accidents in these areas. The minister was also informed that a State-level committee on road safety had been constituted, and that similar committees were also functioning at the district level meeting regularly to chalk out action plans to prevent accidents.

The minister then directed the health officials to study the Tamil Nadu model which he said had significantly helped that State in reducing fatalities, and said that signages and speed breakers should be put in place in the accident-prone areas on the Siddipet-Hyderabad road.

During the meeting, the officials were also directed to notify hospitals in both the government and the private sectors as designated trauma care centres and upload them to the health portal. And the R&B officials were asked to develop service roads and take up illumination of islands on the Gajwel Outer Ring Road.