PWD directs officials to ensure road safety norms

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 20

The engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, Delhi Government, Sarvagya Srivastava at a meeting held today directed officials to ensure compliance of road safety norms such as proper installation of signages, surfacing of streets, etc.

Sources in the department said the meeting is the result of government’s decision to make accountable to the officers before the Assembly house committee.

The move is intended to ensure that there is no accident on its roads due to lack of safety norms. There are 1,260-km roads owned by the PWD in the city, an official said.

The sources said, "in the meeting, it was directed that all the field staff must ensure that road surfaces and road safety measures on PWD roads are proper and not liable for any accident," the minutes of the meeting stated.