DIMTS and IIT Delhi to conduct highway security audit in Odisha

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: As highway fatalities proceed to be a serious explanation for concern in Odisha, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has engaged a Delhi-based company and a analysis panel of IIT Delhi as consultants to hold out audit of roads within the State.

Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS) Ltd in consortium with Transport Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP), IIT Delhi will conduct an ‘Audit of Implementation of the Directions issued by Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety in Odisha’.

As directed by the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety (SCCoRS), the audit workforce will perform the evaluation in three states together with Odisha.

The workforce will confirm and accumulate numerous data pertaining to the audit and research. They will go to completely different elements of the State and work together with the officers to assemble highway security associated paperwork and information aside from major and secondary data from discipline.

The audit workforce may even go to 4 cities – Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Behrampur and Rourkela –  which have been reporting most variety of highway accidents regardless of numerous corrective measures.

After the Secretary of SCCoRS wrote to Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra to help the groups in finishing up the audit, the State authorities has requested Secretaries of 5 departments, DG of Police, ADG of Crime Branch, Transport Commissioner, State Crime Records Bureau and NHAI Chief General Manager to supply information and instruct officers to be in readiness.

Chairman of SCCoRS throughout a latest dialogue with the Chief Secretary and senior officers had expressed concern over rise in fatalities within the State.

There has been regular enhance in variety of fatalities from 3,931 in 2014 to five,081 in 2021, a rise of about 29 per cent (computer) throughout the interval. 

The Chairman had noticed that, violation of MV Act is a critical subject which should be addressed with high most precedence else they’ll result in critical accidents.

There must be stress on public at giant that, if someone violates provisions of MV Act, he will probably be handled strictly and with heavy arms by enforcement businesses, he noticed.

Meanwhile, the State authorities has nominated Joint Commissioner Transport (Road Safety) Sanjay Kumar Biswal as nodal officer to facilitate and join the consultants’ workforce with the officers of the State departments.