Traffic Awareness
Road safety is must to be paid proper attention by each and every person on the earth, whether using vehicles or not. Children and students are the most vulnerable group towards the road accidents, minor or major injuries and even death because of the lack of adult supervision. There should not be late in making children well aware about the road safety rules and measures in their early ages. It should be the duty of parents and teachers to teach them properly under their nice supervision.
Traffic Awareness and Road Safety
As a road safety NGO in India, Our NGO is working on various projects concerning traffic awareness and road safety issues. We are using a unified, community-centric strategy for sorting out the issues pertaining to the realm of Traffic awareness. The team members who have become an integral part of the Atrangi Duniya are advocating for issues that ensure road safety improvement. Also, we actively participate in several activities related to road safety committee meetings.
Road safety is a significant issue that affects one and all as every day we need to walk or travel by the road for one or the other reasons. If one has to go to school, hospital, office, parlor, or anywhere, using the road becomes a mandatory thing. Moreover, in professions like driving, individuals can’t avoid traveling by road and that too on a daily basis. Thus, the issue of road safety has become vital in today’s time.
With our concrete and tireless shots in the direction of creating road awareness among the masses, we have organized awareness programs and campaigns to let the maximum number of people get familiar with rules and regulations concerning traffic and road safety, the impact of traffic violation rules on the society, and other information related to road safety.
Traffic awareness campaigns have become important these days due to the increasing number of cases related to accidents and mishaps. It’s a moral responsibility of all the citizens of the nation to abide by the traffic and road safety rules and avoid fast and furious driving on the road, which has taken many lives untimely. Ignorance of traffic rules is not a smart act at all, as many unfortunate lives have become victims of it and even becoming victims today.
Need of Road Safety Knowledge for Children
According to the statistics, it is found that there are most of the road accidents cases in which children are involved, so they are at high risk than other age group people. They need road safety knowledge and education from their early ages. It should be started from their home and schools by adding this subject to their syllabus. Some points are mentioned below proving the fact that why road safety is so important for kids and children:
- Children are children, no one can be sure about what they will do next at home or other crowded place especially road during traffic situation.
- Children become completely innocent, they cannot judge the vehicles speed moving on the road.
- Drivers also cannot recognize their mood to move on the road especially when they try to cross the road in front of the vehicle because of their small height.
- They cannot judge how often vehicles can come on the empty road.
- They can cross road from anywhere on the road because they have no idea about proper place to cross the road.
- They become fearful soon and do not understand what they should do when they see vehicles coming to their direction.
Traffic Awareness and Road Safety Campaigns
Atrangi Duniya, is thriving in terms of spreading the message of road safety and traffic awareness amidst the significant fragment of the population. Through our out-of-the-box methods, we are making people familiar with road safety and traffic rules as we realized the need for sensitizing youngsters as well as older ones on road safety guidelines.
The best way to boost the safety level of yourself and others while driving on the road is by following the rules and guidelines related to traffic and road safety and never trying to violate them and not let others violate the road safety rules. Our team members have also emphasized the importance of traffic lights and how obeying traffic lights can become a medium of protection and safety through which accidents would get prohibited or at least cases would get reduced in number.
In our road safety and traffic awareness campaign, our active participants hold safety placards, banners along with making an appeal to people to wear seat belts, helmets, and strictly follow the traffic rules. Our NGO in India is promoting road safety campaigns through numerous initiatives in order to prevent road traffic injuries, especially among today’s youth. Through our campaigns, we are pleading people to slow down and save their lives as well as the lives of other
Facts and Figures Concerning Road Safety
- As per the reports, 11% of the deaths due to accidents in the world happen in India.
- On a more comprehensive note, accidents caused by overspeeding vehicles on roads have taken the lives of more than 97k people in India in the year 2018.
- The most prevalent violation in terms of road accidents is driving on the wrong side.
- According to the Annual Government Report, in the year 2018, 53 road crashes and 17 deaths happen every hour.
- Road traffic injuries have become the eighth principal cause of deaths in India.
- Total deaths of Minors in road crashes in India account for 6.6%.
- The pace at which cases of road traffic dates are increasing year by year, one of the recent studies reveal that the numbers are likely to go beyond the mark of 2, 50,000 by 2025.
Initiatives of the Government concerning Traffic & Road Safety
- In 2020, the Ministry of Transport has assured that Rs. 14,000 crore state support scheme is in the pipeline to boost road safety within India. The funding for this program would get looked after by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The prime objective of this road safety scheme is to bring a reduction in fatalities due to road accidents.
- The introduction of an Act concerning road safety, i.e., the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act by the government of India is concerned with working dedicatedly towards the safety of roads.
- The Indian government has strengthened safety law enforcement to assist the state government and other governments.
- The Indian government has increased highway patrolling on State along with National Highways to implement and make the safety laws applicable properly.
- Through publicity campaigns, education, and training, the Indian government is instilling knowledge about traffic and road safety among the masses.
- The government is making the arrangement of emergency medical amenities for road accidents taking place.
- The Indian government has launched a Road Safety Information Database to upgrade data collection and analysis quality.
- In addition to this, the government is endorsing traffic and road safety awareness to pull down the number of rising incidents.
