Importance of Road Safety for Children
With an escalating number of accidents and deaths on India roads, road suraksha or road safety is a matter of grave concern for our country. As many as 840 people die on Indian roads every day (UN data), and the numbers seem to be only increasing. These figures, coupled with an insane number of grievous injuries, and mindboggling traffic violations, it’s high time some constructive steps are taken in improving road safety of our country. India is a fast-developing country and is going through a phase of rapid urbanisation. However, the rise in traffic on the roads is not supported by a conducive road environment. Faulty and poor road engineering, lack of trained law enforcers, untrained drivers with next to no knowledge of the current traffic rules and regulations are some of the critical issues that should be addressed urgently to improve road suraksha . Added to this are low quality and outdated traffic equipment and signage and corrupt officials that add to the woes of th