Call to make road safety part of school syllabus

LAHORE

Speakers at a road safety conference were of the unanimous view that effective planning and implementation of traffic rules can help curtail fatal road traffic accidents, which are claiming the precious human lives to the volume of 1.3 million across the world and 14,000 in Pakistan annually.

National Highways and Motorways Police (NH&MP) organised the conference in Lahore on Thursday in which people belonging to every walk of life participated with reference to NH&MP Raising Day activities. NH&MP DIG Mirza Faran Baig was the chief guest of the seminar.

The speakers included representatives from transport owners' unions, Rescue 1122, Lahore Transport Company, goods transport, students and teachers of different educational institutions.

NH&MP DIG Mirza Faran Baig said road safety should be the part of school syllabus to improve safety which was currently far below the magnitude of the problem. He said, "We are unaware of road sense as a nation while the absence of 3-Es----education, law enforcement and engineering----especially the law enforcement and road user’s behaviour were important.

NHA GM Hafiz Ahmad Bukhsh said that NHA with the coordination of Motorway Police had always maintained the standard of road engineering and infrastructure.

SSP Masroor Alam Kolachi said the probability of accidents could be reduced in a number of different ways. All public agencies as well as private sectors need to play their role in strengthening road safety, he said. 

Rescue 1122 Director Communication Jam Sajjad said that it was imperative for all to earnestly address road safety problem and to bring it in order and discipline to protect lives and property.  

Turkish team: A Turkish delegation from Istanbul Sehir University, Yasar University and Izmir University of Economics visited Punjab University and called on its Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran on Thursday. 

Workshop: Punjab University’s Centre for Clinical Psychology (CCP) organised a workshop on professional ethics. 

According to a press release, Dr Nigar Khawaja, associate professor and clinical psychologist, School of Psychology and Counseling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, was the resource person of the workshop.