Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Implement road safety measures strictly: LA panel
Ramban:- House Panel of Legislative Assembly has stressed on prompt and fair implementation of road safety measures to check incidence of road mishaps in erstwhile Doda district.
The Committee which convened a meeting of senior officers here today, highlighted the pressing and urgent need for putting in place short-term measures like installing crash barriers, checking over-loading and rash driving setting up of transport work shop to ensure safety of passengers. Defaulting drivers need to be dealt with sternly, it maintained.
The Committee expressed concern over the frequency of road accidents and asked the concerned agencies to address the issue on priority. “Safeguarding human life must receive focussed attention”, the Committee observed.
MLA, Inderwal, G.M. Saroori, MLA Ramban, Ashok Kumar, MLC Naresh Gupta, DIG Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban, M. K. Sinha, DIG Traffic, Danish Rana, Deputy Commissioner, Kishtwar Anil Magotra and senior officers of Transports, Road and Buildings and beacons were present in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, the chairman of the Committee, M.Y.Tarigami asked police and traffic authorities to activate their ground functionaries to check negligent driving, over-loading, usage of mobile phones and other offenses. He said these offences have been identified as major causes for spurt in road accidents over the years.
He said while the Committee is in the process of compiling comprehensive report, short-term suggestions as conveyed to the concerned agencies call for immediate and fair implementation with perceptible results at the ground level. He also highlighted the need to amend Motor Vehicle Act to impose heavy fines on drivers for violating traffic rules.
The Committee which convened a meeting of senior officers here today, highlighted the pressing and urgent need for putting in place short-term measures like installing crash barriers, checking over-loading and rash driving setting up of transport work shop to ensure safety of passengers. Defaulting drivers need to be dealt with sternly, it maintained.
The Committee expressed concern over the frequency of road accidents and asked the concerned agencies to address the issue on priority. “Safeguarding human life must receive focussed attention”, the Committee observed.
MLA, Inderwal, G.M. Saroori, MLA Ramban, Ashok Kumar, MLC Naresh Gupta, DIG Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban, M. K. Sinha, DIG Traffic, Danish Rana, Deputy Commissioner, Kishtwar Anil Magotra and senior officers of Transports, Road and Buildings and beacons were present in the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, the chairman of the Committee, M.Y.Tarigami asked police and traffic authorities to activate their ground functionaries to check negligent driving, over-loading, usage of mobile phones and other offenses. He said these offences have been identified as major causes for spurt in road accidents over the years.
He said while the Committee is in the process of compiling comprehensive report, short-term suggestions as conveyed to the concerned agencies call for immediate and fair implementation with perceptible results at the ground level. He also highlighted the need to amend Motor Vehicle Act to impose heavy fines on drivers for violating traffic rules.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Estimate Committee chairs meeting under the leadership of GM Saroori at Jammu.
The Committee also recommended 75% of the market cost of the livestock killed in such cases. The Committee, which met here under the Chairmanship of MLA, G. M. Saroori reviewed in detail the status of CAMPA works, timber extraction and clearance of trees along under construction road projects, land compensation to the forest department for its land used in projects.
The committee asked the forest and R&B departments to conduct joint inspections on the road construction sites to sort out the issues with regard to the use of forest land and cutting of the trees to facilitate early clearance of NABARD, CRF and PMGSY road projects.
The Committee also recommended for engagement of local people as casual labours near protected areas for the protection of the wild life.
The Committee asked forest department to expedite the cases of clearance of road projects. The members directed the concerned to put up the objections for early clarification so that all pending road project cases are cleared within one month. The committee also called for submission of detailed district wise reports with date of indent, date of re-submission of queries and date of joint inspection reports about those cases pending with the forest department. The members asked the forest authorities to expedite the process and ensure clearance within a weeks’ time.
Legislators, Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan, Subash Kumar Gupta, Ashwani Kumar Sharma and s. Indu Pawar gave their suggestions to improve the working of Forest, Revenue and R&B departments in settling the pending cases.
Among others, Principal Secretary, R&B, K. B. Agarwal, Commissioner Secretary Forest, Shantmanu, Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Dr. Pawan Kotwal, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, R. D. Tiwari, Director General, Accounts & Treasuries, Wali Mohammad Bhat, Special Secretary Revenue, Relief Commissioner, Head of departments of forest and its allied wings, Chief Engineers of various wings of R&B department and other concerned officers of Revenue, Forest, R&B and Assembly secretariat attended the meeting.
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