In the backdrop of the WHO’s global status report on road safety , which reveals how India tops the global list of deaths in road accidents,
a high-level meeting is to be held in the city this week to discuss the city traffic police’s detailed report which highlights the fact that an average 450 deaths take place every year in Pune.
The meeting will be chaired by district guardian minister Ajit Pawar, and will be attended by the municipal commissioners of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, officials of the civic road and traffic departments, cantonment officials, and a few NGOs working in the field of road safety. The meeting which will discuss road traffic and safety issues will focus on the report made by the traffic police on accident analysis and prevention measures. The report had been released by police commissioner Satyapal Singh in June this year.
