Need to actualise goals of UN Decade of Action for Road Safety

More than a month ago the Punjab and Haryana High Court had asked the district Legal Services Authorities to verify claims on road safety campaigns made by the traffic police of the two states.

The City police are planning to monitor noise pollution at the traffic junctions using hand-held noise meters in order to record the decibel level and penalise the offenders.

The City police are planning to monitor noise pollution at the traffic junctions using hand-held noise meters in order to record the decibel level and penalise the offenders.

Around 300 commercial vehicles have been fined a total of Rs 3.48 lakh in a fortnight of the pollution checking drive launched jointly by the state transport department, the district administration

The ministry of chemicals and fertilisers had proposed to set up a national chemical centre to formulate environment and human-friendly policies and contain risks posed by chemicals.

This is aimed at streamlining legislation governing the industry and making entities concerned responsible for their acts. The industry, at present, is governed by multiple legislations under several ministries — the Environment Protection Act, 1986; Factories Act, 1948; Motor Vehicles Act, 1988; Explosives Act, 1884; Disaster Management Act, 2005; CWC Act, 2000 and Land Acquisition Act, 1894.

Transport experts and motorists have reacted strongly to the Sunder Committee recommendations making proof of parking mandatory before registration of vehicles.

For the first time, Puneites can hire battery-operated electric scooters, YoBykes, under a scheme,