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Thursday, Mar 24, 2005
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Roadways Maruti calls for road safety board Our Bureau
Mr Jagdish Khattar, Managing Director, Maruti Udyog, inside a `Simulator' which provides virtual driving environment, at the inauguration of Maruti Driving school in Bangalore on Wednesday. — G R N Somashekar
Bangalore , March 23 MARUTI Udyog Ltd (MUL) has urged the Union Government to set up a National Road Safety Board, which can act as an integrating agency to tackle the issues of road planning, vehicle design and health care support to reduce road fatalities , said Mr Jagdish Khattar, Managing Director of (MUL). Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Mr Khattar said, India should emulate European countries, which had brought down road fatalities through a coordinated approach to road safety.India's road safety record is dismal, with about one lakh people dying every year and one million injured. Besides, the cost of road accidents is also enormous, said Mr Khattar. Mr Khattar, while opening the Maruti Driving School (MDS) here, said road safety and traffic management are the focus areas in Maruti's agenda for corporate social responsibility. MUL has decided to set up 50 MDS by the year-end, of which one each in Kollam (Kerala) and Chandigarh will be opened by March-end. MDS is equipped with a hi-tech simulator (imported from France) to give a hand-on feel to learners before taking the vehicle to the road. This would eliminate road-fright for learners. The simulator provides virtual driving environments, which include various road and weather conditions (fog, dim light, uphill and downhill terrain). A 20-hour comprehensive training will cost less than Rs 4,000, said Mr R. S. Kohli, General Manager, MUL. The MDS will have trained instructors from the Institute of Driving Training & Research Delhi (managed by MUL) as well as lady instructors.
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