IIT Roorkee conducts 4th road safety auditor certification course

IIT Roorkee, MoRTH, and IRC signed an MoU for conducting three courses to achieve the target of reducing road crashes to 50% by the year 2030.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) collaborated with the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to organize the fourth 15-day training programme on Road Safety Audit from May 30, 2022, to June 13, 2022. The programme comes under the road safety initiative taken up by the Government of India to have a pool of well-trained road safety auditors in the country. IIT Roorkee, MoRTH, and IRC signed an MoU for conducting three courses to achieve the target of reducing road crashes to 50% by the year 2030.

130,000 lives lost in India to accidents in 2020

Road accidents claimed more than 130,000 lives in India in 2020, as per the Road Accident Statistics published by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The major reasons include driver errors, over-speeding, drinking and driving, and the negligence of other drivers. Meanwhile, a significant proportion of road accidents may occur as the result of poorly designed roads, the stats revealed.

India is losing almost 3 % of its GDP to road crashes. To eliminate such road crashes, one of the most effective methods is to audit a road project, right from its design stage until its opening to the traffic.

IIT Roorkee Road Safety Audit Curriculum

IIT Roorkee road safety course curriculum was a 15-day training programme including extensive 7-day lecture sessions delivered by several renowned academicians, consultants, and practitioners such as SPA Delhi, CSIR-CRRI, IIT Roorkee, ICT New Delhi, iRAP, RITES Ltd., Save Life Foundation and Punjab Police, to name a few.

It also included field visits near Roorkee city and evaluation/examination of the participants. The valedictory session was held on June 13, 2022, in the Department of Civil Engineering of IIT Roorkee.

The ceremony was graced by the presence of Professor Manorajan Parida, Professor Praveen Kumar; course coordinators, and other senior professors.

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