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National workshop on road safety to begin today
The workshop is going to be inaugurated by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Union Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Jairam Gadkari will be the chief guest at the event and will deliver the keynote address. Soames Job, global lead, road safety, World Bank will also address the session on the inaugural day.
Visakhapatnam: The two-day national workshop on road safety will begin here from Friday. Eminent speakers across the world are going to deliver their lectures in the workshop on road safety related issues.
The workshop is going to be inaugurated by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Union Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Jairam Gadkari will be the chief guest at the event and will deliver the keynote address. Soames Job, global lead, road safety, World Bank will also address the session on the inaugural day.
Transport Minister Sidda Raghava Rao briefed the media on the arrangements being made at the venue here on Thursday. Expert on Road Safety Rob Mclnerney and George Stewart of New Zealand police will speak on life saving potential and road safety model in New Zealand.
The other participants comprise Ministers and officials belonging to stakeholder departments related to road safety both at national and State level-Group of Ministers on Road Safety, Supreme Court committee members on road safety, Transport Ministers from various States in the country, Transport Commissioners, Government Secretaries, police officials, representatives of APSRDC, NHAI, medical and health department, municipal administration and transport department.
The workshop is being organised jointly by the State government and World Bank.The topics which would be discussed at the workshop include international and national best practices on road safety, innovative road safety initiatives, engineering aspects in road safety, enforcement measures to be taken for improving road safety, and national and State level road safety challenges and responses.
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 accidents by 2020.
This Brasilia declaration on Road Safety was second global high level conference on road safety organised by WHO in November 2015 and India also is committed to follow the Brasilia declaration by making necessary policy changes and infrastructure development related to road safety.
