Training Minister Directs NCERT To Introduce Highway Security Modules In Curriculum Of College students Of Class 1-12 | Mobility Information
New Delhi: Union Training Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday requested NCERT to incorporate audio-visual modules on highway security for age and class-appropriate programs for college students of Class 1 to 12, to sensitise college students in regards to the visitors guidelines. Addressing an occasion right here, Pradhan additional stated modules ought to be launched on this educational 12 months (2025-26) as an elective topic.
“Highway security can’t be an non-compulsory topic…I’m directing the Ministry of Training and NCERT to arrange audio-visual modules on highway security for age and class-appropriate programs for college students of Class 1 to 12,” he stated. In accordance with the minister, round 25 crore college students are learning in colleges in India.
Talking on the occasion, Union Highway Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari stated that India accounts for five lakh accidents, inflicting 1.8 lakh deaths and damage to three lakh folks yearly. The minister raised issues that 10,000 deaths are of kids under 18 years.
Gadkari additional stated that the federal government has determined to offer an award of Rs 25,000 to those that will assist accident victims. “We have now taken a call that any third individual who’s going to assist accident sufferer, we are going to give him an award of Rs 25,000. Additionally, if any accident sufferer is admitted to any hospital, we are going to present monetary assist of as much as Rs 1.5 lakh for a most interval of seven days from date of the accident,” he stated.
Pradhan additionally recommended for incorporating programs on vitality conservation consciousness in colleges.
Gadkari stated the federal government has launched a number of new guidelines, like necessary carrying of rear seat belts, and these habits ought to be taught early in childhood. “I might request college students to advise their mother and father towards utilizing cell phones whereas driving, and encourage accountable behaviour on roads,” he stated.
Gadkari recommended that faculty infrastructure like entry and exit factors should even be made safer, with lifts for kids and aged folks.
