TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Recently the Minister for Health and Medical Education, Social Welfare and Education, chaired a meeting at the Civil Secretariat to review the existing traffic regulations for enhanced safety and security of school and college going students of Jammu and Kashmir.
She assessed several aspects of traffic regulations like validity of driving licenses, fitness certificates and documents of college and school buses, curbing overloading and installation of CCTVs and Fire safety tools in college and school buses besides other measures to enhance safety protocols for the students.
She passed on strict directions for installation of CCTVs in all school buses including private buses transporting school children. She emphasized on the need for stricter enforcement of traffic laws, enhanced coordination among schools, transport and police departments for effective implementation of road safety regulations.
“It is our collective responsibility to create a safe and secure environment for the school and college going students”, Sakeena stated.
Expressing displeasure over rising road accidents, she called upon transport and police departments to launch effective drives against over speeding, drunken driving as well as licence violations with special focus on college and school going students. She further asked them to keep through check on stunt biking and rash driving among youngsters and juveniles and make their parents fully responsible for such incidents.
She called upon both the departments for strict implementation of ‘no helmet no fuel rule’. She asked them to constitute joint checking squads to ascertain its on ground implementation.
