Road safety campaign will kick off in Rajasthan from July 15

JAIPUR: The transport department in collaboration with state police will start an intensive nine-day campaign on road safety which will commence on July 15. Officials said while these campiagns are done intensively in Jaipur, this time they are preparing to focus on other districts as well.
Transport commissioner Mahendra Soni said, “We regularly try to create awareness about road safety regulations, and during these nine days we will work with police to intensify it. While in Jaipur, this is being done continuously, we will focus in other districts too.”
Earlier this year too, the department had run a month-long road safety campaign with an aim to encourage them to be Good Samaritans in addition to promoting rules and regulations about traffic.
Experts claimed that one of the primary reasons of traffic violations is lack of knowledge and negligence. The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways had updated the Motor Vehicle Driving Regulations in 2017. However, these regulations never reach the public neither a system has been set up by the government to educate them.
The MV Regulations 2017 in the notification gives instructions for both light and heavy vehicles, giving minutest details about the driving rules to be followed including the way of parking, use of indicators, maintaining adequate distance from other vehicles, use of service lanes for heavy vehicles, parking indicators, ways of indicating that a vehicle has broken down, etc.