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Vizag to host national meet on road safety
The city will host the first-ever national workshop on the road safety on August 19 and August 20. Eminent speakers from across the world will deliver the lectures at the workshop on issues relating to road safety. The workshop will be inaugurated by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari will be the chief guest.
Visakhapatnam: The city will host the first-ever national workshop on the road safety on August 19 and August 20. Eminent speakers from across the world will deliver the lectures at the workshop on issues relating to road safety. The workshop will be inaugurated by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari will be the chief guest.
On day one, after inauguration by the Chief Minister, the Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will deliver the keynote address. Global lead, road safety, of the World Bank Soames Job will also address a session on the inaugural day.
Expert on road safety Rob Mclnerney and George Stewart of New Zealand police will speak on life-saving practices and road safety model being adopted in New Zealand.
The other participants comprise Ministers, officials belonging to stakeholder departments related to road safety both at national level and State level.
Group of Ministers on Road Safety, Supreme Court committee members on road safety, Transport Ministers from various States in India, Transport commissioners, government secretaries, police officials, representatives from APSRTC, National Highways Authority of India, Medical and Health department, Municipal Administration and Transport department will also participate. The workshop is being organised jointly the State government and the World Bank.
Wide-ranging topics on international and national best practices on road safety, innovative road safety initiatives, engineering aspects, enforcement measures for improving road safety and national and State-level road safety challenges would be discussed.
The objective of the workshop is to focus on the Brasilia Declaration, wherein the target is to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020.
