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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Is the government reluctant to ensure better road safety for its citizens?
Description: With the monsoon session of Parliament scheduled for the 21st of this month, road safety activists in the country have begun a push towards demanding more stringent legislation for automobiles, roads and highways, to ensure better safety for all road users. This is not a small concern – India has one of the highest road traffic accident rates in the world, its roads are some of the world’s most deadly, and every three minutes in our country, there is a death due to a road accident.
According to Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari, every year Indi...