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| 935 people die in subversive violence in J&K in last three years against 3288 in road mishaps. What a shame? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 31: When the State Assembly was told on Friday that as many as 3288 people got killed and 27165 were injured in 18786 road accidents during the last three years people heaved deep sighs over the human loss. But those who were a bit petrified and those who felt perturbed over the sorry state of affairs were presumably unaware of the fact that 01.18 lakh people die in road accidents in India per year.
Those who wish to adopt either a sadistic view or "I care least" approach to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir seem to receive satisfaction over reports indicating that about 10,000 people get killed in road accidents in Andhra Pradesh and its adjoining states per year. But those who try to seek comfort from the Andhra scene forget that here are about 14 lakh vehicles in Andhra Pradesh against eight lakhs in Jammu and Kashmir.
Again there are people who believe that more people get killed in road accidents in Delhi state per year than in Jammu and Kashmir forget that in Delhi there are one million cars and in all there are about four million vehicles. Delhi has gained a reputation of being a state of rash, drunk and reckless driving in which over 2,000 people get killed in road mishaps per year.
Yes, if one is bothered over the rising level in the road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir, there have been as many as 18786 during the last three years, they are not to be blamed because no state Government can prevent road accidents from taking place in a state dotted with tough mountain routes and roads. Road accidents can be a routine affair in a state of Jammu and Kashmir where there is no lane driving system nor any automatic traffic control system
If experts says that majority of road mishaps take place in hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir they are right because number of road accidents and causalities therein have taken place in the
hilly belts of Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Batote, Banihal, Rajouri and Poonch. Even the official records confirm it they show that in 2009 197 people were killed in the hilly belts of Jammu region against 63 in the Kashmir valley, there were 192 an 190 deaths in road mishaps in the Jammu region in 2010 and 2011 against 55 and 75 in the Kashmir valley during the same period.
Two other factors responsible for the road accidents is rise in the number of road unworthy vehicles or what may be called vehicles that have outlived their utility. These vehicles unfit for carrying passengers from one place to the other operate because of lack of supervision and checking by the traffic and transport authorities.
Another reason being overloading and that too in the accident prone areas of Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Banihal, Rajouri and Poonch. Since people, who are yet to achieve proficiency in driving passenger vehicles, manage to get driving licences they become merchants of death while failing to negotiate deep and blind road curves in the mountain regions of the state.
This calls for a new policy for regulating driving licences, registration of vehicles, traffic control in the state. The new policy should provide for heavy penalty for those drivers, vehicle owners and traffic police who violate the norms set by the Government.
If the new system is not evolved more and more people will get killed in road accidents every year. What is worrying is the fact that during the last three years 935 people, including militants, were killed in militancy related incidents in Jammu and Kashmir against 3288 in road accidents. One does hear a louder roar against causalities in militancy related incidents than in road mishaps. This thinking has to be changed. |
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