LAHORE – Chief Minister of Punjab Chaudhry Parvez
Elahi constituted a provincial task
force for road safety. He chaired a meeting on Saturday during which the measures taken for road safety were discussed.
The CM stated that the working group would prepare
a global action plan for the prevention of traffic accidents and
measures would be taken in the light of the recommendations that would be presented by the
intervention force. The necessary legislation
also be done in this regard and Provincial Minister Raja Basharat would be the
leader of the working group. chief secretary,
inspector general of police, additional
Chief Secretary (Reception), Traffic Officers
and other officers will be members of the
Intervention force. The Chief Minister granted
approval to introduce mini electrics
trolleys instead of motor rickshaws.
The meeting decided in principle to promote environmentally friendly electric bicycles
reduce pollution in the province. He
argued that e-bikes and e-cars would be encouraged in the
province adding that motorcycle rickshaws would be turned into golf carts
vehicles gradually. He revealed
that a readable token sticker would be
pasted on the vehicles after performing
their control and in the absence of a readable control token, the
the vehicle would be immediately put away
the road. The CM ordered to pay special costs
pay attention to the repair of roads and
government vehicles to reduce
traffic accidents, adding that traffic
the police should adopt a zero tolerance policy
on broken down vehicle issues
headlights and turn signals. He claimed
that strict legal action must be taken
against underage drivers. DG Relief
1122 Service Dr. Rizwan Naseer gave a
briefing at the meeting that 10 people
die and many are injured daily in traffic accidents, adding that after
every 2 minutes a traffic accident takes
place somewhere in Punjab. Chief Secretary Abdullah Sumbal, CM Principal Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti, Inspector General of Police Faisal Shahkar.
