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Arunachal: Tawang MLA inaugurates Road Safety awareness programme

Arunachal, Tawang , Road Safety awareness, Tsering Tashi

TAWANG-  A month long programme on National Road Safety awareness  was inaugurated today by the MLA Tawang  Tsering Tashi at Masang Dung Rhue mey (Old Market) Tawang. This year the theme for road safety month is SADAK SURAKSHA : JEEVAN RAKSHA. The programme was organized by District Transport office in collaboration with District Administration and District Police Tawang.  Jambey Wangdi, Chairman DOKAa(Chosrig Affairs),  Sang Phuntsok,Deputy Commissioner Tawang, Commander Tawang Brigade Brig. VK Jagtap, Zila Chairperson  Leki Gombu, SP Tawang , B.Kamduk,ZPM Tawang Tsering Dorjee other senior officers and public leaders and general public attended the function.

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Choiki Dondup, EAC cum District Transport officer, Tawang in his brief address informed that earlier this programme was conducted only for a week but taking into consideration the increasing number of road accidents daily it was necessitated to celebrate this awareness programme for a month long, so that maximum of areas can be covered and create more awareness at every level.

 Bomge Kamduk, SP Tawang in his address said every year more than one lakh fifty thousand people die in road accidents and this number is increasing, a person driving a vehicle should always remember that there are family members waiting for you at home, so drive carefully follow traffic rules and avoid drinking while driving.

DC Tawang Sang phuntsok said that haphazard parking is one of the reasons for road accidents, we have to park our vehicles mindfully, and not as per our own convenience. He further requested every person to create a parking place for their vehicle specially in market areas, because no vehicles will be allowed to park on the roadside in days to come. District Administration Tawang is coming up with a plan of parking on payment basis soon he added.

Addressing to the gathering MLA Tawang  Tsering Tashi, Congratulated the organizers of Road safety awareness programme and said daily death rate due to road accidents in our country is around twelve hundred per day, and causes for these accidents are mainly rash driving, non compliance of traffic rules and intoxicating drinks while driving. We have to be good and responsible citizens.

Tawang being a tourist hot spot number of visiting tourist is increasing every year, and we have to plan accordingly to accommodate smooth vehicular movement in township area. MLA Tawang assured that in coming two years the road condition in Tawang township will improve further with the completion of CC roads under construction from Tawang market area upto Tawang monastery. He later distributed helmets to bike riders.

The foreman of DTO office AL Khushwaha, earlier gave information on traffic signs

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