New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Indian Road Congress (IRC), and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) have collaborated to organise the 4th road safety certification course to reduce road crashes by 50% by the year 2030. The 15-day training programme on Road Safety Audit began on May 30 and will end on June 13, 2022.
IIT Roorkee organises the programme which is an initiative by the Government of India for road safety policies. The course aims at making a pool of well-trained road safety auditors in the country. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is signed by IIT Roorkee, IRC, and MoRTH for conducting three courses to reduce road crashes to 50% by the year 2030.
As per the Road Accident Statistics published by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, in the year 2020 road accidents claimed more than 1,30,000 lives in India. The reason behind such a mishap is driver errors, over-speeding, drinking and driving, and the negligence of other drivers. Even the stats revealed that poor construction of roads is also a reason for such road accidents.
Due to road crashes India loses 3% of its GDP. To eliminate road crashes there have to be effective methods to audit a road project, from designing to traffic.
IIT Roorkee 4th Road Safety Course: Highlights
The 4th Road Safety Certification course was a 15-day training programme with an extensive 7-day lecture series by several renowned academicians, consultants, and practitioners such as SPA Delhi, CSIR-CRRI, IIT Roorkee, ICT New Delhi, iRAP, RITES Ltd., Save Life Foundation and Punjab Police, to name a few.
This year the programme was conducted from May 30 to June 13, 2022 which also included field visits near Roorkee. The course also included evaluation or examination of participants. The valedictory session was held on June 13, 2022, in the Department of Civil Engineering of IIT Roorkee.
Professor Manorajan Parida, Professor Praveen Kumar; course coordinators, and other senior professors graced the occasion this year.
In other news, IIT Roorkee admission has begun for B.Tech and M.Tech programmes for the academic year 2022-2023.
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