The All India Federation of Motor Vehicle Department Technical Executive Officers Associations (AIFMVDTEOA) has planned various activities to promote road safety and Road Safety Week 2012. It organised a programme beginning January 2nd at Pimpri-Chinchward, Pune in which reflective tapes were fitted on bicycles and bullock carts as an enhanced safety measure. Banners such as those displaying this year’s Road ...

MG Diagnostics and Imaging Centre released a book on road safety as a part of the Road Safety 2012 campaign. The book contains information on precautions motorists should take while driving and useful advice on topics such as buying helmets. Speaking on the occasion, the city additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) for Traffic and Security Dr MA Saleem reportedly requested ...

Lokmanya Hosptial, Pune, in collaboration with the  (RTO), Pimpri and the Pimpri Chinchwad Corporation (PCMC) conducted a training programme from Jan 1-10, aimed at creating a cadre of first responders trained in emergency response, and extrication and proper transportation of accident victims to hospitals. A total of 10 workshops were conducted in which 200 responders were trained. Lokmanya hospital also ...

The Pimpri Chinchwad RTO has been observing Road Safety 2012 by conducting special educational, mass awareness and enforcement programmes for 15 days beginning January 1st. Giving the details of the programme to TrafficInfraTech, Jitendra Patil, Deputy Regional Traffic Officer, Pimpri-Chinchwad, said that on January 2nd a training workshop was held at Auto Cluster Development & Research Institute Ltd for instructors ...

The Society of Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) organised safety awareness drives and driver training workshops throughout the country as a part of Road Safety 2012. Hubert Ebner India was the training partner in these programmes in North India, North East India (Agartala), Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. A Refresher Training Programme in New Delhi for executives of the Airport Authority of India, ...

Special announcements, informing motorists and pedestrians of traffic rules, were played at major traffic intersections in Patna as the city observed Road Safety Week. The announcements called upon drivers to wear helmets, to park their vehicles properly, not to drive after drinking, and informed them of the penalties for different traffic offences. The 30-minute recorded announcements might eventually become a ...

Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles Ltd (VECV) conducted a comprehensive Road Safety Training Programme for drivers throughout the country on the occasion of Road Safety Week 2012, and trained about 3500 drivers. The programme was inaugurated on January 2nd by Prabhat Parashar, Commissioner Indore, and Anuradha Shankar, IGP Indore. A programme “The Safe Drivers Mela” was held at in which regional driver ...

Operations of the first section of Namma Metro, popularly known as Bangalore Metro, began in October this year. It was inaugurated by Urban Development Minister, Kamal Nath. The Metro has successfully begun carrying passengers on its elevated 6.7km stretch – ‘Reach1’ –from Byappanahalli to Mahatma Gandhi Road (MG Road). It forms the Eastern section of the 18.1km long east-west line ...

For the second year running, the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, Delhi has beaten Mumbai airport as the busiest airport in India. In 2010, IGI handled 11.6% more flights and 1.4% more passenger traffic than Mumbai. Mumbai airport has been facing a severe space crunch, and resultant constraints on its infrastructure. The situation is further worsened due to the cross ...

Controversial back-scatter airport scanners, currently used widely in the US and Manchester, UK, could be withdrawn if serious health concerns about them are confirmed. The scanners, also known as ‘naked’ scanners, because of the naked images they produce of air travellers being checked for security purposes, are expensive at £80,000 a piece. They have been in use since 2009 when ...