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| Who is responsible for increasing road accidents? | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 8: The recent road accident in which five persons were killed and 15 others injured in Bhaderwah has again placed the tragic traffic management and road conditions of the State in focus.
Every passing day precious human lives are lost due to reckless driving, bad road conditions, overloading and the dishonesty of those posted on duties on the highways. For police officers and constables getting posted to the State Traffic Department has always been a lucrative assignment.
It is shocking that Ministers and politicians of political parties in power have been blatantly recommending their favourites to senior officers for being posted on the national highway and other 'paying' assignments in the Traffic Department.
It is primarily because of the negligence of the Traffic authorities and other regulatory functionaries that public vehicles overloaded with passengers are seen plying on major highways and district roads in the State.
The State Government always issues statements after tragic road accidents expressing condolences with the families who lose their near and dear ones in such tragic incidents. Not once has responsibility been fixed for such accidents which are definitely avoidable if proper road safety measures are followed by those using the roads or these are strictly enforce by those put on duties to ensure that the violators do not go unpunished.
Roads have become killer roads across the State not because there is some divine curse which rules these roads, but because of irresponsible law-breaking drivers who always go scot free after they cause accidents on these roads.
Some years back, the State Government had decided to fix responsibility for the negligence of duties by the Traffic cops supervising the passage of traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway. It was reported in the newspapers that a very senior police officer was the direct beneficiary of the loot that was going on in the traffic management on the highway.
Despite strict orders that no vehicle would ply on the highway on a particular date, hundreds of trucks and passengers vehicles were allowed to ply on the road that had been declared unworthy of traffic by the Border Roads Organization on that day.
Newspaper reports said that a sum of rupees five hundred had been charged by the unscrupulous Traffic cops from each vehicle that was allowed to pass on the highway and the direct beneficiary of the loot had been a senior police officer. While the people expected heads to roll, the only action that the Government took against the erring top cop was to transfer him and post him at a 'more lucrative assignment'.
As long as the State affairs remains like this, precious lives will continue to be lost on our roads and highways for which sometimes we will blame the bad road conditions or the rash and negligent driving of the drivers. |
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