Over loading the biggest challenge for road safety

The traffic police department has recently put into place some new road safety measures. Few years back the traffic police department had directed the drivers of passenger vehicles to use uniforms and keep their seat belts fasted while driving and similar directions were also issued for the people driving private vehicles. Though these traffic regulating measures were welcomed people of all shades but the failure of the traffic police department in implementing the measures on the ground was sufficient enough to show its non seriousness on road safety measures. Doubtlessly stringent measures are needed to regulate the driving for safer journey on roads both in Kashmir and Jammu divisions of the state, but ultimately implementation makes the difference. The general feeling brewing up among the people in both Kashmir and Jammu divisions of the state is that the bigger cause of the failure of the implementation of road safety measures on the ground is the presence of incompetent and corrupt people in the traffic regulation agencies. So some measures are also needed to address the issues of incompetence and corruption breeding ground in the traffic regulation agencies of the government.
It has been also observed in recent years that drivers often run musical appliances while driving the passenger vehicles and often meet fatal accidents. More over the menace of overloading resulting in tragic road accidents is neither curbed in cities nor towns. If at all the overloading has become an unavoidable offence for the drivers, but giving a free license to drivers to continue the menace of overloading is objectionable and better for the law enforcement authorities to apply breaks on the menace of overloading. Since the menace of overloading results in deaths of scores of precious human lives month after month, the issue deserves immediate attention of the traffic regulation authorities. So without letting scores of precious human lives falling prey to the continuing menace of overloading, the traffic regulation authorities should given a thought to the idea of some stringent measures for stopping the menace of overloading. Any delay on this count would prove detrimental for the safer journey of people on the roads in both Kashmir and Jammu divisions of the state. Since the safer journey on roads should be issue of prime concern for traffic regulation authorities, better for them to solicit views on the growing menace of overloading from peoples of the all shades. Efforts to make journey people safer on roads in the state should begin with a mass awareness campaign against over loading in passenger buses and the awareness should begin with the conduct of debates in schools, colleges and other education institutions so that plausible measures are devised and put in place for improving the road safety management system in the state.