Make 'road safety' part of school curriculum: Minister

Updated on: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Road, Transport and Highways Minister C P Joshi has pressed for making 'road safety' a part of school curriculum.

"A proper and practical road safety curriculum should be developed for this purpose as it will have a long lasting impact on the minds of our young children," he said in a statement.
   
The slogan for this years road safety week as 'Accidents bring tears, Safety brings cheers' has focussed on different age groups of school going children so that they learn about road safety in league with various stakeholders including Transport Authorities, Traffic Police, Health departments, schools, transport associations, voluntary organisations etc.
   
"The Statistics show that almost 80 percent of road accidents take place due to drivers fault. This indicates need of a change in attitude. If people follow traffic rules and adopt simple road safety measures, a large number of fatal accidents can be avoided and thousands of precious lives can be saved," Joshi said.
   
"Government needs to focus particularly in the younger generations to inculcate respect for traffic rules. If it implant the basics of road safety in the minds of children, it can surely arrest the increasing trend of road accidents,"  he said.

More Education news

• Karnataka department of higher education to further strengthen protection to women students and employees
• Heads of government and private schools directed to keep a close watch on the behaviour of teachers
• Chairman of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions submits his report
• Everyone will be given due representation says Goa CM
• Pune Education Department to hold meetings with schools to ensure a smooth RTE implementation
• Health and Medical Education, Forest and Home departments within the ambit of Public Services Guarantee Act
• 'value education' courses in engineering colleges to inculcate better values and character building
• students challenge new NET gidelines
• Proposed multi crore edu city project nearing completion
• 21 engineering colleges affiliated to the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University to seek accreditation
• MBBS and PG medical seats to be increased by 50% and 100% respectively from academic year 2013-14
• M S University's faculty of fine arts mired in controversy over a painting hurting religious sentiment
• IICA inks MoU with Bangalore-based National Law School of India University for forging academic partnership
• President asks private players to contribute in improving the standards of higher education
• First technical and medical university at picturesque Apatani Plateau in lower Subansiri district
• Prayas scheme to be extended to 4 more districts
• Jamia Millia Islamia Professor gets Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
• Japans new government will not waive tution fee to pro-Pyongyang high schools
• Most Israeli high school students found accessing Mobile phone during class hours
• UGC notifies the procedure and criteria for declaration of result for NET to be conducted on 30.12.12