Summary:
“Our ‘Safe Drive Save Life’ campaign has been effective and successful in reducing the number of road accidents in Bengal.
The number of accidents in Kolkata has come down by 35 per cent and deaths due to this by 27 per cent.
As many as 407 people had died in road mishaps in Kolkata in 2016, while the number came dome to 294 by 2018.
The number of injury cases to has come down by 32 per cent.
If we consider statistics of entire Bengal, then the number of accidents has been reduced by 28.1 per cent,” she said at an event to mark the day on Harish Chatterjee Street.
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Accidents in Kolkata have come down by nearly 35 per cent in the last two years, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, the third anniversary of her ‘Safe Drive Save Life’ campaign.
“Our ‘Safe Drive Save Life’ campaign has been effective and successful in reducing the number of road accidents in Bengal.
The number of accidents in Kolkata has come down by 35 per cent and deaths due to this by 27 per cent.
As many as 407 people had died in road mishaps in Kolkata in 2016, while the number came dome to 294 by 2018.
The number of injury cases to has come down by 32 per cent.
If we consider statistics of entire Bengal, then the number of accidents has been reduced by 28.1 per cent,” she said at an event to mark the day on Harish Chatterjee Street.
‘Safe Drive, Save Life’ programme is the brainchild of Chief Minister Banerjee, launched in 2016.
It was started in Kolkata and later taken across Bengal.
The Supreme Court too had showered appreciation on it, holding it up as a shining example of what honest intent can achieve.
Banerjee, while speaking during the programme, also alerted people to follow traffic rules and appreciated naka checking by police at night.