Road safety education will be the part of school curriculum in the union territory of Chandigarh. The UT Education Department alongwith the UT Traffic Police Department has prepared the school curriculum with SCERT for the school children and it would be introduced from the next academic session.

Apart from this, a road safety manual for driving licence applicants has been prepared in the city in a bid to ensure road safety of commuters.

The manual has been designed by Harman Sidhu, president of Chandigarh based NGO-ArriveSAFE in coordination with Transport Department and Chandigarh Traffic Police.These measures for road safety were discussed at the meeting of the Road Safety Council chaired by Manoj Parida, Adviser to the Administrator here.

The proposed parking policy of Chandigarh was also discussed and it was decided to go make certain changes in the draft policy and submit it to Punjab and Haryana High Court besides notifying it for public suggestions.

During the meeting, Shashank Anand, SSP Traffic highlighted various aspects like road crash trends in the city, issues pertaining to the safety of cyclists and pedestrians, elimination of dark spots, menace of beggars at traffic intersections etc.

It was informed that the driver speed feedback LED sign boards have been installed at six road crashes prone locations to enhance self awareness of the drivers and no fatal road crashes were recorded at these locations so far.

The issues such as installation of pedestrian pelican lights between Sector 5 parking area and Sukhna Lake, installation of strong iron grills on all dividers, installation of blinkers on the roundabouts, rationalization of traffic light timing, installation of cameras in dashboard in ambulance, provision of lane marking direction arrows and intersections control marking on all major roads of the city were reviewed at the meeting.