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Functions of the National Council for Road Safety

  • Coordinating activities relating to road safety amongst governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
  • Paying compensation to persons injured in hit and run accidents.
  • Maintaining a database
    • Number of vehicles and their features.
    • Road accidents.
    • Local and international statistics about road accidents.
  • Maintaining a library on road safety.
  • Maintaining relationships with like minded international institutions and exchange of knowledge.
  • Preparing and implementing projects on road safety.
  • Offering advice to the government on policies and projects connected with road safety.

Activities to be carried out in the year 2021

  • Establishing committee on road safety.
  • Formulating a national policy on road safety Publicity campaigns over television and radio.
  • Paying compensation to victims of accidents caused by unidentified vehicles.
  • Establishing provincial road safety committees and their future programme of work.
  • Commemorating the day of victims.
  • Creating awareness among schoolchildren, government institutions, three wheel drivers and private bus drivers.
  • Commemorating Road Safety National Day n the month of March 2019.
  • Forming road safety students’ societies in schools.
  • Conducting an international workshop on road safety with the participation of governmental and voluntary organizations of the South Asian region.
  • Converting roads leading up to Kawdana junction from the Katubedda road block into an accident prevention zone.
  • Converting the said road block into an awareness creating centre and educating drivers and pedestrians by fixing display notices and banners.
  • Raising awareness among schoolchildren at the national level and giving practical knowledge to them by installing traffic regulation signals in schools.
  • Forming a road safety student brigade and forming school societies in every school to create awareness in that regard.
  • Designating the Road Safety Day during the month of March and declaring an island-wide road safety week.
  • Initiating training programmes at every privately owned factory for raising scientific, technological and legal awareness with a view to producing drivers equipped with productivity.
  • Formal awareness  creation among all SLTB and private bus drivers.
  • Educating drivers of school vans and addressing service shortcomings and problems.
  • Creating the necessary background for a qualitative three wheeler service for the public through formal training and by bringing about an attitudinal change in three wheeler drivers.
  • Displaying awareness creating notices and road signs in every own of the island.

Our Mission for a Secured Society on Roads

  • Standardization of helmets and bringing to a safe status.
  • Bringing the unprotected three-wheeler to safe status.
  • Providing protection for small cars even with air bags.
  • Making a meter compulsory for three wheelers for the goodness of passengers.
  • Fixing seat belts for three wheelers, covering all iron and steel pipes inside with rubber.
  • Strengthen the canopy on the right side and make it safer.
  • Taking actions to remove yellow strips established at wrong places and do corrections.
  • Establishment of reflective boards to educate the public on unsafe level crossings.
  • Establishment of public awareness boards at railway stations.
  • Rehabilitation of SLTB drivers who have been injured.
  • Working in collaboration with the Presidential Secretariat to reduce environmental pollution caused by vehicles.
  • Contribution for the reduction of noise pollution.
  • Providing financial aid to victims of hit and run accidents.
  • Conducting free pre-training programs for driving licence applicants.
  • Implementation of programs to reduce violence against women in the public transport.
  • Contributing to the amendment of the Fines Act.
  • Establishment of Provincial Road Safety Agencies
  • Conducting awareness programs for school children at national level.
  • Creating awareness among of government and non-governmental officials.
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National Council for Road Safety,
No 01, D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha,
Colombo 10,
Sri Lanka.
Phone : +94 112 696 890 / +94 112 687 109 /+94 112 674 162
Fax : +94 112 680 163 
E-mail : ncrstransport@gmail.com
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2024-11-21
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