Indian Road Safety Campaign
About India Road Safety Campaign[1][edit]
The Indian Road Safety Campaign, is the road safety initiative of Solve, a trust started by the students and alumni of IIT Delhi to solve the problems plaguing the society on the ground level. IRSC (Solve) is the youth led organisation working towards the mission of making Indian Roads Safer, focusing on reducing the number of deaths caused by road accidents across India by half till 2020.
The Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve was started when few students of IIT Delhi lost their life in a road accident just after being placed in firms. It started as a project under National Service Scheme, IIT Delhi.
iSafe[edit]
The Safer India Challenge'18 is a 9 month long championship held annually, with the aim to reduce the deaths caused due to road accidents to half by 2020. iSafe intends to use the expertise of the students, in which they are pursuing their graduation to bridge the gaps present in road-safety and move towards a safer India.
As per the statistics released by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, India lost more than 1.5 lakh people due to road-accidents last year with 1 person dying every 4 minutes on the roads[2]. Globally, more than 1 million people lose their lives due to road accidents every year. Of the 1.5 lakh, more than 60% of the deaths is of youth between the age of 15-34 years and everyday, 20 children under the age of 14 die due to road-accidents.
References[edit]
- ↑ "IRSC". www.road-safety.co.in. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ↑ "'One person dies every 4 minutes in road accidents in India' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
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