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Seminar Session
Road Safety:

A Patchwork Approach?

The session on Road Safety: A Vision Beyond Concession Agreement
on the opening day has been an eye-opener for the audience. The

session speakers, in one voice, advised the infrastructure developers
to look beyond profits while giving impetus to safety

n August, the government However, as rightly described among them. And this irony is
got the approval of by Neeraj Sanghi, CEO, Highway resulting in someone dying on
Parliament for a new law, Concessions One Private Ltd, who Indian roads every four minutes
which, if implemented in moderated the session, in India, with the country being the
Ispirit and substance, could road safety is, and always in world leader in road accident
give another drastic makeover to crisis. Because, according to him, fatality rates. According to him,
the way vehicle owners behave even if the four Es i.e. education, when it comes to road safety,
on the road and implicitly give engineering, emergency response Indian concessionnaire take
another nudge to India’s efforts and enforcement is in place, as patchwork approach. For
to imbibe a rules-based regime. there is zero evidence of synergy example, he said, “during the

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