Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami will inaugurate project ‘Uyir’, a people’s movement against road traffic accidents, here soon.
Mr. Palaniswami also assured all support for the project when trustees of the movement, Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, S. Rajasekaran, S. Malarvizhi, M. Krishnan, and Ravi Sam, called on him in the presence of Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development S.P. Velumani recently.
Dr. Rajasekaran, chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery at Ganga Hospital, made a power point presentation on ‘Uyir’ and the plans for augmenting road safety on the roads at the brief meeting.
Trustees of the project said that the movement has been started as a public movement to make Coimbatore city a role model to achieve zero deaths due to road traffic accidents.
“Most of the accidents occur due to pure non-compliance of road rules. In Indian scenario, where the population is high and drivers are in millions compared to the police force enforcing road rules, the only respite can be a change in the behavioural pattern of society. This can be brought about only by a people’s movement against road accident,” said a release issued by trustees of ‘Uyir’.
People behind ‘Uyiir’ plan to organise innovative programmes such as appropriate infrastructure for road safety, education for the youth in schools and colleges and building best practices for road safety among staff of all educational, industrial and business organisations.
