Man-made Disasters

“More people die from road accidents in India than any where else in the world.” 

It is indeed a damning and disheartening report.

“The World Health Organisation (WHO) says death rate per 100,000 population rose in India from 16.8 to 18.9 between 2009 and 2013.  If you look at numbers in 2011, we had 440,123 road accidents and 136,834 people were killed in them. Between 2001 and 2011, death rates from accidents on Indian roads rose by 44.2 per cent.

At the moment, one person dies in a road accident every five minutes in India. By 2020, the number is expected to be one every three minutes.

Any solution to this problem?

Yes there is a solution provided the law makers make the following rules and the officials/ authorities concerned implement them sincerely and fearlessly.

1. Restrict the number of owned vehicles per family / institution/ organisation by raising the vehicle tax for the additional numbers acquired by them.
2. Rationing of fuels as per the actual need of the owners and charging more on the excess quantity utilised by them.
3. Quotas to be fixed for the manufacture of vehicles by different companies on the basis of certain parameters determined by the committee of experts.
4. Widening of the roads whenever needed and wherever feasible.
5. Encouraging the usage of public transport among the office-goers and discouraging the usage of cars / four wheelers by / for single persons on city roads.
6. Shifting of bigger establishments with a large number of workers in crowded localities of towns/ cities/ metros to the suburbs with a provision for accommodation and other public utilities like schools , shops etc.