Road safety campaign will be conducted in Uttar Pradesh from January 5 to February 4.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in a high-level meeting held on Tuesday that a state-wide road safety campaign will be launched from January 5 to February 4.

He said that in the last one year, more than 21 thousand 200 people have died in road accidents in the state, while 23 thousand 600 people have died in the last three years due to global pandemic like Corona, which is worrying. Is.

CM Yogi said that apart from poor road engineering, overspeeding, overloading, non-use of safety devices and driving in a state of intoxication are the main factors of road accidents.

Maximum road accidents happen in big cities like Kanpur Nagar, Agra, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Mathura.

Efforts should be made to reduce road accidents by focusing on these cities connected to expressways or national highways.

Task force should be formed to stop overloading.

UP CM Yogi said that the deployment of home guards has also been done by the state government to make the traffic system smooth.

Home guards should be deployed along with the traffic police as per the local requirements.

Establishment of police lines for the personnel of the traffic department in the districts should also be considered. 

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