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Preventing accidents
- Fixing road design and enforcing safety protocols should be priorities- Deaths this week
• 23 children and others in a school bus crash HP,
• 18 labourers in a lorry accident in Maharashtra,
• 9 people in a truck mishap in Uttar Pradesh
Country seems to be nobody’s responsibility.
Supreme Court has been trying to shake government
s out of their apathy through the Committee on
Road Safety it constituted in 2014 and several
specific and time bound directions
Safety black spots on roads that were identified
on the basis of fatal accidents between 2011 and 2014
The Union Road Transport Ministry stated in March
this year that only 189 out of 789
Shameful national record of about 150K dead and several hundred thousand injured annually
Needs to be probed by qualified transport safety experts to determine the factors that
caused it.
Apex court has directed performance of district committees should be reviewed periodically.
State governments to participate, has to be a top priority.
Without expert help, executive agencies such as the Police and Public Works Departments
are unable to conduct a technical investigation into an accident.
Only a scientific system can stop the routine of all accidents.
Present investigative machinery does not have the capability to determine faults,
Enabling officials responsible for bad road design and construction
Accident victims heavy burden of out-of-pocket expenditure on medical treatment.
The government had promised to address this issue through a cashless facility,
But it has not been able to do so as the requisite amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act
have not yet been passed- Ultimately, road safety depends on enforcement of rules with zero
tolerance to violations, and making officials accountable for safety.
B.R Ambedkar
- B.R. Ambedkar’s educational journey began in impossibly challenging conditions.
- With the help of a modest scholarship granted by the Maharaja of Baroda,
- He joined Columbia University, New York, in July 1913.
- After completing his M.A., he went on to write a thesis that ultimately led to
the conferment of a PhD degree. - In mid-1916, he was admitted to Grays’ Inn in London to appear for the bar.
- When his scholarship ended in 1917, he was forced to return to India
- All this has been well documented by his biographer Dhananjay Keer
But several details remain incomplete. - What was the exact date on which he left India? When did he
arrive in America? - How did he travel to London? Based on documents newly accessed in
the British Library, we can now fill in the gaps.
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
- Page-1- Kathua murder hits J&K politics, 2 BJP Ministers quit
- Choudhary Lal Singh and Chandar Prakash Ganga had defended the accused
- PM promises justice in Kathua, Unnao cases
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysiys
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Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
- Doval meets top Chinese diplomat
- Sources say talks were purely on bilateral issues and not part of the upcoming SCO summi
- Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Qingdao for a summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organsiation (SCO)
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis
- Sharif can’t fight polls: Pak. SC
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday banned the former PM Nawaz Sharif, from
participating in elections for life, declaring that any person proved to be “dishonest or not
righteous” is barred from politics for life or holding any public office. - Exempt langar food inputs from GST: Nitish- like sugar, ghee, edible oil, spices
- India, U.K. in talks over education
- We have 14,000 masters students from India in the
U.K. Students form an important part of bilateral ties - President Maithripala Sirisena has temporarily suspended the Sri Lankan Parliament, an official statement said, giving no reason for the move.
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