NH&MP’s awareness campaign: Need stressed to create awareness about road safety
- November 7, 2015, 9:59 pm
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QUETTA: There is a dire need to create awareness about road safety among the general public.
This was the crux of the awareness seminars and walks organized by the National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) in different districts including Quetta, Kalat and Zhob.
The Deputy Inspector General of NH&MP, Ehsan Manzoor supervised the awareness campaign. Needless to mention here is that the campaign was launched on special directives of the Inspector General of NH&MP, Muhammad Saleem Bhatti.
A large number of students of the Universities, colleges and schools as well as the people belonging to various walks of life attended the awareness programmes.
In Quetta, Deputy Director National Highway Authority (NHA), Riaz Ahmed, Media person from Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University, Ms. Mehwish Ali, Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Lal Muhammad Kakar, Focal Person of Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Engineer Nasir Shah addressed the gathering on road safety.
Similarly, in Kalat, Deputy Commissioner Kalat, Tufail Baloch, Muni Ahmed Shahwani as well as from Zhob, District Police Officer Zhob, Zahid Afzal Khan, Assistant Commissioner Ejaz Ali, Assistant Commissioner Shirani, also addressed the awareness programme in their respective areas and spoke at length about the importance of road safety.
They regretfully pointed out that hundreds of people lost their lives in fatal road accidents in the country every year. So there is a dire need to create awareness about the road safety and traffic laws so as to prevent the fatal accidents, they stressed.
Addressing the seminar in Quetta, the Deputy Inspector General of NH&MP stressed the need for implementation on the traffic and highway laws to escape accidents.
We can stop the road accidents by implementing the traffic laws, he stressed.
It is our important and collective responsibility to implement the traffic laws and aware the people about it so as to save lives of the people, which otherwise are lost in the fatal road accidents.
The Deputy Inspector General also stressed that it is basic duty of every citizen to adopt the preventive measures. The seminar was followed by an awareness walk.
Other speakers including the senior surgeon Dr. Lal Khan Kakar and others also stressed the need to create awareness among the masses about road safety. Hundreds of people fell prey to the fatal road accidents on the highways, they regretfully pointed out. They said that several lives could be saved just following the principles of road safety.
