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ROAD SAFETY
Rajasthan’s Road Safety
Web Portal
o focus upon the safety
of road users, the
State Road Safety Cell,
Department of Transport
and Road Safety in
Tcollaboration with
Rajasthan Knowledge Corporation
Limited (RKCL) has developed a
dedicated road safety web portal.
This is first of its kind of portal in
the nation developed by the State
which has been launched by the
Deputy CM & Transport Minister of
Rajasthan Dr. Prem Chand Bairwa
on 14 February 2024. The portal
available in English and Hindi can
be browsed by following the URL
https://roadsafetycell.rkcl.in. A
separate section comprising road
safety content and games for kids
is under construction by RKCL and
will be available soon to the public. their CSR initiative, collaborated
This portal has been developed
in compliance to the State
Level Initiatives included in the
Rajasthan Road Safety Roadmap
– 2020 which was developed
in accordance with the Budget
Declaration made by the Chief
Road crashes is a complex health issue requiring
a collaborative approach from multiple
stakeholders. Therefore, road safety interventions
have been grouped into six pillars wherein each
stakeholder has been assigned definitive set of
activities to carry out. Out of these six pillars of
road safety, the pillar Safer Road Users involves
activities pertaining to road user behaviour which
covers awareness, education and enforcement
of road users. Road Safety expert Ashwini
Bagga who contributed during all phases of
development of the portal gives an account
Minister of Rajasthan. The point followed by preparation of a
number 1.6 of the Rajasthan Road Detailed Project Report (DPR).
Safety Roadmap describes the Thereafter, its working prototype
need for development of a Road was developed to visualize its look
Safety Web Portal. and feel and grouping of content.
RKCL is a Public Limited At the final stage, the actual
Company which is a joint venture portal was developed having the
of Government of Rajasthan and authentic content. Mr. Ashwini
other institutions that promotes Bagga, a Jaipur based Road
IT enabled education programs to Safety Expert, contributed during
all sorts of educational institutions all phases of development of the
and Government Departments. web portal including planning,
RKCL caters to approximately DPR preparation, prototype design
seven lakh students per year and content creation. This portal
studying in various affiliated includes plethora of information
centres across the state. Earlier, related to road safety, which is
RKCL with the help of State Road useful for students, public at large,
Safety Cell had developed a short stakeholder departments, agencies
road safety education module and professionals working in the
which was made compulsory to field of road safety.
their students. Later, RKCL under
The Web Portal aims to
with the State Road Safety Cell for function on the following
development of the web portal. areas.
Purpose of Web Portal: a) Create awareness among
adult road users and educate
The portal was developed in them about road safety
multiple phases. First, the structure regulation, legislations, and
of the portal was conceptualized other related issues
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