Road Safety Board Bill likely in winter session
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Transport Ministry will soon going to approach the Cabinet for setting up the Road Safety Traffic Management Board and a Bill for this purpose is likely to be tabled in the winter session of Parliament.
"We have prepared the draft Cabinet note for creating the Board (Road Safety Traffic Management Board)... We will take it to the Cabinet very soon and it is likely to be tabled in Parliament this winter session," a senior Transport Ministry official told PTI.
The Transport Ministry had proposed setting up of a board for both the Centre and the states earlier this year. However, the Law Ministry had struck down the proposal on the grounds that the Centre did not have the authority to set up such a Board for the states.
"Finally we had to agree to it (Law Ministry) and the Board will only be created for the Centre initially," the official added.
Later, if the states find the idea useful, they can replicate such a body, he added.
Once the Board comes up, the recently constituted Committee on Road Safety and Traffic Management would be dissolved.
The Transport Ministry formed the 14-member Committee last month to lay the foundation for setting up the Board.
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