THIS IS NOT DONE
The large numbers of road accidents in less than a week in UTs of J&K and Ladakh are the testimony to the fact that there is something wrong in the system which needs to be fixed as soon as possible or else things can go out of hand. Though in the last few months, there was uproar in the UT that traffic cops are doing injustice in the name of implementing rules as many people were alleging that it was nothing but an attempt to fill the coffers of the government as during pandemic time government has incurred massive losses but looking into the grave situation with regard to rise in road mishaps it seems that what the traffic cops were doing was not enough because to save lives on roads there is lot more which has to be accomplished as spilling blood on roads in this manner is not acceptable at all. Accidents once in a blue moon can be taken as God’s wish but every other day people losing lives on roads with no change in system is not at all tolerable and all the stakeholders should be made accountable for this kind of anarchy on roads in J&K and Ladakh. Not the day was passed when seven army personnel lost lives in a fatal road accident in Turtuk near Nubra Valley in Ladakh and PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh besides others condoled the demise of valiant soldiers, there was the news of a passenger mini bus falling down the Tawi Bridge in heart of Jammu city killing one person among the two occupants. This was not enough as another report has come that a bus travelling from Jammu to Doda District has overturned injuring 27 persons in Udhampur’s Battal Ballian area. Six among the injured were critical and have been shifted to Jammu for specialized treatment. A day before the accident in which seven army personnel lost their lives, another accident took place in Kashmir wherein the driver of a passenger vehicle coming from Kargil to Srinagar reportedly lost control and vehicle rolled down the deep gorge killing nine passengers including one army Jawan. This precarious situation of road mishaps calls for immediate steps to stop bloodshed on roads and much of the onus depends on police as implementing rules is its duty. There is also a need to change the process of issuing licenses as something is wrong in the system leading to such chaos on roads.