VAL spearheads three days Road Safety Campaign...
Industrial Revolution has a profound effect on the socio-economic and cultural conditions of the populace. But as we know, every pro has a con. People in industrial sector are always at a risk of being injured in traffic related accidents. Poor roads, increasing vehicular movements, overloaded carriers and inadequate enforcement of the laws are just a few of the causes that increase the risks for these populations. As a grooming industrial city, Jharsuguda has certainly opened up a way in for many migrants within it. Increasing people in search for their livelihoods, mounting infrastructures and greater than ever vehicular movements in the locality shows a crystal clear fact. It somehow demands us for the road safety obligations, which need to be implemented and practised efficiently.
Basically I was just all set to start writing concerning the importance of Road Safety Campaign in our city, and guess what... It made me surprised when I read that Vedanta had organized a three days road safety campaign in its plant premises especially for the truck drivers, helpers, labourers. While pondering something odd in the newspaper, I found that the three days campaign was organised near the R&R Colony, Plant I main gate and CPP from 13th April 2011 to 15th April 2011. The drive was ceremoniously inaugurated by Mr. Pramod Suri, CEO VAL and was attended by over one thousand Drivers, helpers, labourers, employees and sheer number of visitors. Mr B K Das, Dy. Director Factory & Boiler, Mr Chittaranjan Beura, Asst Director Factory & Boiler graced the occasion as the dignitaries.
Mr. Das highly appreciated the initiative taken by Vedanta. During the occasion, Documentary Films related to “Road safety measures” and “Driving discipline and habits” were screened. The audience enjoyed the Safety educational skits (drama) those were performed by local artists.
On my behalf I must stress upon the role of Drivers and helpers in particular to inculcate safety habits for the well being of their family and dear ones. Any loss due to an accident gets multiplied many times as it directly affects the dependent family back home. Everybody must care for Safety as Life cannot be compensated by any means. All need to practise Road safety norms in and around the work place and wherever we operate.
Mounting road accident cases has already rang an alarm in the society. So, this trend needs to be reversed now. We must try to imbibe a culture of total safety so that certain facts can be improved a bit.
From a source:
The global traffic statistics are staggering:
There are 3,200 road deaths every day – 1.2 million deaths per year. An estimated 50 million people are injured or disabled annually in traffic-related crashes. The World Health Organization estimates that road crashes cost US$518 billion per year.