Lawmakers speaking at the special hour of the Legislature-Parliament meeting today drew the government’s attention towards rising number of road accidents in the country, urging it to come up with substantive steps to ensure road safety and minimise traffic fatalities.

Expressing their concerns over the lack of road safety and inconveniences being faced by passengers, they demanded that the government come up with a substantive plan for reducing the level of road accidents. The government should mobilise its every mechanism to improve the situation of road safety and to immediately upgrade rural roads and roadways that are in poor conditions.

The government should mobilise its every mechanism to improve the situation of road safety and to immediately upgrade rural roads and roadways that are in poor conditions, they said. The demanded cost-free treatment for those injured in the Dhading bus accident Tuesday and proper compensation to the bereaved families.

The leaders also demanded cost-free treatment for those injured in the Dhading bus accident on Tuesday and proper compensation to the bereaved families. Krishna Bhakta Pokhrel, Guru Prasad Burlakoti, Resham Bahadur Baniya, Bharatpur Kumar Saha