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Bihar to introduce road safety in high school
syllabus
Monday April 29, 2013 08:13:30 PM,
IANS
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Patna: After
introducing road safety in the syllabus of middle schools, the
Bihar government has decided to include the subject in the
syllabus of high schools also from the 2014 academic session, a
state minister said Monday.
Bihar Transport Minister Brishen Patel said road safety would be
introduced in the syllabus of high schools.
"The transport department is working to prepare an outline for it.
The syllabus would be ready within six months," Patel said.
"Millions of students in class nine and ten would study road
safety in detail. We have decided to introduce road safety in
their syllabus after it was successfully introduced in middle
schools," Patel told IANS here.
He said the government had already introduced brief lessons in
road safety for classes six to eight in middle schools across the
state.
Patel said that with the incidence of road accidents rising by the
day, and with data available to show that most victims of road
accidents were in the 10-20 age range, the need for such lessons
was considered necessary.
Officials of the transport department said there was one chapter
on road safety in middle schools, but about five chapters are
planned for introduction in high schools.
Traffic experts and police personnel say the alarming rate of
accidents is mainly caused by poor observance of traffic rules.
"Violation of traffic rules is rampant across the state, and use
of alcohol by drivers is common: These two factors cause road
accidents," a police official said.
Police officials say accidents involving marriage parties are
common during "lagan" (traditional marriage season) in Bihar,
which occurs in summer.
Officials say hundreds of lives are lost in Bihar every year in
road accidents, many of which are caused by negligent or drunk
driving.
India has the world's largest number of road accident deaths - the
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) put the figure at 1,30,000 in
2010.
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