{"id":123978,"date":"2021-10-07T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=123978"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:02:10","slug":"national-road-safety-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/national-road-safety-board\/","title":{"rendered":"National Road Safety Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<br>i) Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways has notified constitution of the National Road Safety Board.<br>ii) The Head Office of the Board shall be in the National Capital Region.<br>iii) The Board shall be responsible for promoting road safety, innovation and adoption of new technology and for regulating traffic and motor vehicles.<br>Which of the above statements are correct?<\/strong><br>a) i<br>b)iii,ii<br>c) i, ii,iii<br>d) None<br><strong>Ans: c<br>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Recently Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways has notified constitution of the National Road Safety Board, along with Rules.<\/li><li>Related Facts<\/li><li>National Road Safety Board will function as a lead agency at national level to deal with the matters relating with road safety.<\/li><li>It will promote road safety, innovation and adoption of new technology .<\/li><li>It will also provide inputs for regulating traffic and motor vehicles.<\/li><li>The board is made with an eye on integrating efforts in collaboration with states to reduce road crashes and improve all aspects of safety.<\/li><li>Head office of the board<\/li><li>The Head Office of National Road Safety Board will be established in the National Capital Region.<\/li><li>Board might establish offices at other places as well in India.<\/li><li>Members of the board<\/li><li>The road safety board will comprise of the Chairman.<\/li><li>Apart from that, there will be 3 to 7 expert members.<\/li><li>All the members will be appointed by the Central Government.<\/li><li>The provision for establishment of the board was provisioned in the Motor Vehicle Amendment Act 2019.<\/li><li>Functions of the board<\/li><li>Formulate,<\/li><li>(a) specific standards for road safety, traffic management and road construction for hilly regions;<\/li><li>(b) guidelines for capacity building and development of skills for traffic police, hospital authorities, highway authorities, educational and research organizations and other organizations;<\/li><li>(c) guidelines for establishing and operating trauma facilities and para-medical facilities, for consideration by the Central Government.<\/li><li>Promote<\/li><li>(a) Good Samaritans;<\/li><li>(b)good practices in road safety and traffic management;<\/li><li>(c)new vehicle technology in the field of vehicular engineering;<\/li><li>(d)co-ordination with international organizations; and<\/li><li>(e)consistency between international technical standards and domestic technical standards,<\/li><li>Conduct research to improve road safety, traffic management, crash investigation.<\/li><li>Provide technical advice and assistance to the Central Government, State Governments and local authorities on road safety and traffic management.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Kameshwar shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1761051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1761051<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements:i) Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways has notified constitution of the National Road Safety Board.ii) The Head Office of the Board shall be in the National Capital Region.iii) The Board shall be responsible for promoting road safety, innovation and adoption of new technology and for regulating traffic and motor vehicles.Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":123979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-123978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123980,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123978\/revisions\/123980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}