Ensure drivers follow traffic norms: Minister to bus owners

The Transport Department convened an exigency gathering with apical constabulary officials, postulation constabulary officials, on with antithetic autobus owners’ associations, and heads of authorities transport undertakings, to code the increasing interest implicit reckless driving and roadworthy safety.

In the meeting, State Transport Minister Snehashis Chakraborty emphasized connected the value of adhering to postulation rules on with wearing helmets and besides urged autobus owners to guarantee that their drivers comply with regulations. “We person told the operators that successful lawsuit of decease of immoderate idiosyncratic successful a autobus accident, execution charges volition beryllium slapped against the errant driver,” helium said.

The Minister said that the backstage autobus owners person besides been asked to bash distant with the committee strategy to minimise rash driving. Under this system, a operator is lured to overtake different conveyance plying connected the aforesaid way for monetary incentives by getting much passengers than the other.

Meanwhile, a subordinate of the West Bengal Bus and Minibus Owners Association said that a autobus which runs precocious beyond the scheduled clip volition besides beryllium fined.

“…we perceive a batch of complaints from assorted quarters astir the committee strategy and however it is reported to beryllium 1 of the basal causes down the rash driving by drivers. We person to destruct each factors liable for unsafe driving – speeding and usurpation of lanes,” helium said. Chakraborty, further, announced the rollout of regular consciousness campaigns to beforehand roadworthy information and the “Safe Drive Save Life” initiative.

Additionally, helium highlighted the government’s committedness to leveraging exertion to amended roadworthy safety, with Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar, spearheading the improvement of precocious postulation monitoring systems to forestall accidents.

He further said that it has been decided to earmark definite points, which would beryllium marked ‘dangerous’ from the information constituent of presumption of pedestrians, motorists and passengers crossed the state.

“Senior transport and constabulary officials are astatine enactment to devise a seamless network, which tin guarantee connection betwixt each autobus operator connected real-time ground erstwhile helium is connected roadworthy truthful that his question tin beryllium monitored and speedy enactment taken successful the lawsuit of immoderate untoward incident. The nitty gritty and workings of specified connectivity volition beryllium devised by the officials and IT experts,” helium said.

Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, who was besides contiguous astatine the gathering said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had personally called him to enquire astir the steps being taken to code the issue. Hakim suggested the implementation of a Standard Operating Procedure to modulate the fig of buses operating connected circumstantial routes astatine circumstantial times. He emphasized connected the request for a robust postulation monitoring strategy to beryllium overseen by the DGP.

Joint Council of Bus Syndicate wide caput Tapan Banerjee said the authorities authorities should not disregard the crushed realities similar encroachment of pavement by hawkers, clogging of roads by autorickshaws and different slow-moving vehicles.

The schoolboy was connected a scooter with his mother, erstwhile a speeding bus, allegedly racing with another, deed the scooter and owed to the collision the lad fell connected the road, which led to his death. — WITH PTI