Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun today said that Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographical Identification System (GIS) would be introduced in all police stations of the country to reduce road accidents.
"Modern, developed and safe road management is very essential for achieving the goal of Vision-2021 and building digital Bangladesh," she said while inaugurating a five-day training programme for police officers on `Accident Event Recording and Reporting' as the chief guest in the seminar room of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) here.
Chaired by Pro-Vice-Chancellor of BUET Prof Dr M Habibur Rahman, the function was addressed, among others, by Vice- Chancellor of the university Prof Dr A M M Safiullah, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad, Director of Accident Research Institute (ARI) of BUET Prof Dr Md Shamsul Haque and film actor and Chairman of Nirapad Sarak Andolan Elias Kanchon.
Sahara Khatun said GPS and GIS technology would help investigators of road accident cases to determine the exact place of occurrence (PO) and causes of the accidents.
"There are so many scopes for committing mistakes in traditional investigation system and it could increase road accidents if we take decision from wrong information and system," she added.
Emphasizing more training to police officers, drivers and other concerned quarters, she said that there must be a monitoring system to formulate new policies to keep the roads free from accidents and hazards.
"We must have to introduce modern post-accident management system in the country to reduce casualties in road accidents," she added.
The home minister said that the government is definitely concerned about some recent accidents and losses of lives of the innocent people and taken up various initiatives to reduce losses of properties and casualties in road accidents.
It is also considering enacting a new law to ensure proper training to drivers and punishment to all responsible for road accidents, she added.
Dr Safiullah said that over 70 per cent transportation of people and goods are conducted through roads, so the roads must be kept safe.
Nur Mohammad said that the issue of security should be added to the basic needs of the human being as there is no security of the people anywhere.
Quoting statistics, he said some 12,00,000 people die in road accidents in the world every year and it could be reduced only by introducing tough penal provision.
Elias Kanchon said the attitude of drivers would have to be changed first to ensure safe roads and reduce road accidents.
He also demanded of the government to enact a tough law to curb road accidents and launch a special campaign to create awareness among all concerned quarters to reduce road accidents.
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