New Delhi: Indian Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai Wednesday said that over one lakh people have been killed every year in the country in road accidents, stressing Indian government and private sector to take emergency measures for effective traffic management.
While addressing a seminar Pillai said majority of the people don’t know that the country loses more than 100,000 people every year in accidents. Apart from the human loss, the country also loses about Rs 10,000 crore in terms of compensation, insurance claim and related needs which otherwise could have been used for other purposes.
He said, “It (casualties) is 20 times more than what we lose in terror attacks, Left wing extremism and all insurgencies put together where we do not lose even 5,000 people.”
Expressing serious concern over the death of such a large number of people in road accidents, the home secretary said both the government and the private sector must work together to innovate effective traffic management schemes to be implemented throughout India.
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