Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) kick-started the Road Safety Week campaign at Delhi’s India Gate. This year’s event on the theme “Sadak Suraksha – Jeevan Raksha” has been organised in association with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India (MoRTH) and Delhi Traffic Police.
The day started off with Delhi traffic police Walkathon with 1000 students at India Gate and a street theatre on road safety. Following that was the inauguration ceremony of National Road Safety Week which commemorated 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Few initiatives by different stakeholders have been announced in the program.
SIAM also launched the Indian Automobile Industry’s initiative of declaring 2019-2020 as National Road Safety Year in presence of Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs. After the launch of SIAM Initiative of 2019-2020 as National Road Safety Year for Indian Automobile Industry, the Ministers flagged off a motor rally to commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Supported by Kanishka Sports and Mahindra and Mahindra, the rally starting from Rajghat is scheduled to conclude in 22 days covering 7250 kilometers.
On this occasion, Sugato Sen, Deputy Director General, SIAM said, ‘’There has been several measures taken to bring down the rate of road fatalities in India but yet, there has been not much of improvement. In order to change the bleak picture of road safety in our country, we aim to identify the steps and areas which are really helping in bringing down the number of road fatalities and concentrate on those. SIAM along with its members would be observing 2019-2020 as National Road Safety Year and will try to bring some best practices which can bring down the fatalities rate on our roads.”
Source: SIAM
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