The Tamil Nadu government has sent a team of senior bureaucrats to Australia for studying highway safety using Safe System Solution and emulate the best practices back home.
A team comprising S.K. Prabhakar, Principal Secretary (Highways & Minor Ports), Beela Rajesh, Secretary to Government (Health & Family Welfare), A. Arun, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) and A. Arun Thamburaj, Project Director, Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project, left for Melbourne on Saturday to participate in a six-day workshop which is set to begin on September 16.
The programme is part of the memorandum of understanding signed by the State government with VicRoads and Highways Department, Australia, official sources said.
