‘TCS keen to join hands with Govt for emergency services to accident victims'

Tata Group arm TCS is keen to join hands with the Government in an initiative to harvest organs from road crash victims as well as facilitate emergency services for the injured using helicopters, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday.

Battling high incidence of road crashes in India, the Government is going to join hands with South Korea for traffic management system besides planning to introduce an effective highways patrol, the Road Transport Minister said here.

"TCS has come up with a proposal. The proposal is that that they are ready to cooperate in organ donation programme. Helicopter services will be available for accident victims," Gadkari said.

Gadkari also said the Government is coming up with an nitiative to lift road crash victims to hospitals through helicopters to provide emergency medical care and in case of death to specialised hospitals for organ harvesting.