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SERIES I No. 18

Reg. No. RNP/GOA/32/2021-2023

RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

GOVERNMENT OF GOA

Department of Transport

Directorate of Transport

LEAD AGENCY

Notification

D.Tpt/LEAD AGENCY/13/2020/96

In exercise of the powers conferred by

sub-section (1) of section 135 of the Motor

Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act 59 of 1988)

and all other powers enabling it in this behalf,

the Government of Goa hereby makes the

following Scheme, namely:—

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This

Scheme may be called the Goa Causes and

Analysis of Motor Vehicle Accidents and

Wayside Amenities on Highways Scheme,

2021.

(2) It shall come into force on the date of

it’s publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Objectives of the Scheme.— The

objectives of this scheme is to provide for,—

(a) an in-dept study on causes and

analysis of motor vehicle accidents;

(b) wayside amenities on highways;

(d) truck parking complexes along

highways and other amenities.

Suggestions are welcomed on e-mail: dir–[email protected]

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3. Definitions.— In this Scheme, unless the

context requires otherwise,—

(a) “accident prone zone” means a

stretch of road about 500 m in length,

where motor vehicles accidents occur

very frequently, due to the faulty road or

other road conditions detrimental to road

safety, identified on the basis of history of

the crashes and regression analyses;

(b) “black spot(s)” means a road stretch

of about 500m in length, at which at least

five road accidents involving fatalities/

/grievous injuries have taken place during

last three calendar years or at least ten

fatalities have taken place during the last

three calendar years;

this Scheme;

(d) “Government” means the Government

of Goa;

(e) “road safety measure(s)” means

particular or various measure(s) initiated

or required to be taken in the interest of

enhancement of safety on the road;

(f) “vulnerable spot, zone or stretch of

road” means a spot, Zone or the Stretch of

road, where circumstances have changed

due to mushrooming of residential

complexes, establishment of school(s) or

Public Office(s) etc., where vulnerability of

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occurrence of road accident(s) has

increased, on account of substantial

increase in movement of general public and

motor vehicles.

4. Implementation.— The Public Works

Department of the Government (P.W.D.) shall

in co-ordination with the Police Department

and National Highways Authority of India

(N.H.A.I) shall monitor and implement this

scheme.

The P.W.D. and N.H.A.I. may make available

adequate funds for execution of the work(s)

of road safety measure(s), by devising

simplified and robust procedure(s) to ensure

speedier/quicker implementation of such

work(s) of road safety measure(s).

5. Role of the Authorities.—

(A) The Road Engineering Committee

shall conduct an in depth study on causes

and analysis of motor vehicle road

accident(s), on the basis of severity of the

road accidents, only pertaining to road

infrastructure engineering, in accordance

to standards laid down under I.R.C.

standards and thereafter to provide

necessary road safety measures, on short

term or long term basis, at,-

(a) accident prone zone(s);

(b) black spot; and

road.

(B) The Road Owning Agencies shall

provide the following wayside amenities

on National and State highways namely:—

(i)

Motor

Vehicles

refueling/

recharging station(s).

(ii) Tyre air refill, puncture repair and

pollution check centre.

(iii) Motor Vehicles Service Station,

with vehicle washing facility, workshop

of quick motor vehicles repairs, spare

parts shop.

(iv) Primary help facility.

(v) Restaurant/Food court/dhaba.

(vi) Kids zone for kids to play, baby

care rooms.

(vii) Clinic as well as necessary

treatment facilities.

(viii) ATM.

(ix) Smoking zone.

(x) Amply sufficient, separate parking

facility for all types of different Motor

Vehicles.

(xi) Dormitories with clean toilets,

bathrooms, restroom, kitchen area,

drinking water arrangement and laundry

services, for the drivers of Goods

Transport Motor Vehicles.

(xii) Kiosk for sale of local items and

other produce.

(xiii) Any other facility suitable for

motor vehicles, travelling passengers

and drivers.

provide Traffic Aid Posts on National and

State highways in order to control the road

transportation traffic, as well as to make

available immediate help for 24 hrs. X 07

days, during and post accidents, facility

centre shall be provided by road owning

agency, with all required assistance for the

investigation etc. to be provided by the

jurisdictional Police Station and Traffic Cell,

as the case may be. Also sufficient amount

of land with office premises, along the

length of the highway, shall be provided

for such Traffic Aid post, to enable parking

the accidental motor vehicles and to house

appropriate number of traffic personnel to

man the traffic on the highway and for

rescue operation in the event of road

accident.

(D) Every such traffic Aid Post shall be

equipped with,—

(i) Ambulance service with necessary

personnel.

(ii) Strobe light on the vehicle.

(iii) Retro reflective jackets, light

baton, etc., to ensure safety of the

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personnel working for rescue, in the

event of accident during night hours.

(iv)

Emergency

Fire

fighting

equipments, for immediate rescue

operation in case of fire of the motor

vehicles on the highway.

(v) Lightweight barricades, traffic

cones, etc. with retro reflective tapes to

be used at and nearby the accident spot,

for traffic diversion, to enable to carry

out legal formalities.

(vi) Heavy duty crane with necessary

personnel, to shift the motor vehicles

involved in an accident or which gets

disabled due to technical fault, so as to

ensure smooth un-obstructive flow of the

motor vehicle traffic.

(vii) Any other equipment(s) or

measure(s) required for effective and

purposeful functioning of such traffic Aid

Post.

(E) Every such traffic Aid Post shall be

connected to the police control room via

wireless device.

(F) Every such traffic Aid Post shall be

placed at a suitable distance between the

two consecutive traffic Aid Posts, enabling

the shortest possible time taken by road,

from these posts to a nearby major hospital

with trauma care centre, to ensure

expeditious Medical Aid to road accident

victim(s).

(G) The Road Owning Agencies shall

provide Truck Parking Complexes/Truck

Terminus, along National and State

highway which shall be located along the

highway and on the outskirt of a city

nearby to the highway to facilitate the

drivers of heavy goods transport vehicles

to park, to ensure that such motor vehicles

do not park and consume already sparse

space within the city limits, while requiring

to halt for loading or unloading of their

goods, thereby enabling non-congestion of

the city. Such Truck Parking Complexes/

Terminus shall be equipped with the

following facilities:—

(i) Medical facility for benefit of Drivers

and accompanies.

(ii)

Motor

Vehicles

refueling/

recharging station(s).

(iii) Tyre air refill, puncture repair and

pollution check centre.

(iv) Motor Vehicle washing facility,

Workshop for quick motor repairs, spare

parts shop.

(v) Restaurant/Food court/dhaba.

(vi) ATM.

(vii) Smoking zone.

(viii) Ample and sufficient parking

facility for Heavy Motor Transport

Vehicles.

(ix) Dormitories with clean toilets,

bathrooms, restroom, kitchen area,

drinking water arrangement and laundry

services, for the drivers of Goods

Transport Motor Vehicles.

(x) Kiosk for sale of food commodities

and day to day items required for any

individual.

(xi) Any other facility suitable for

vehicles, travelling passengers and

drivers.

6. Committees and their powers and

functions.—

(A) Road Engineering Committee:— The

Government may for the purpose of this

Scheme constitute the Road Engineering

Committee consisting of the following

members, namely:—

(i) Chief Engineer

— Chairperson.

(National Highways,

Road & Bridges).

(ii) Deputy Director of

— Member.

Transport (South),

Chairman - Lead

Agency.

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(iii) Superintending

— Member.

Engineer IX (NH),

PWD.

(iv) Superintending

— Member.

Engineer (III & IV),

PWD.

(v) Superintendent of

— Member.

Police (District) North.

(vi) Superintendent of

— Member.

Police (District) South.

(vii) Transportation

— Member.

Engineer from either

of Goa Engineering

College/National

Institute of

Technology, Goa/

Birla Institute of

Technology

& Science Pilani, Goa

Campus.

(viii) Executive Engineers– — Members.

Works Div. II/VI/VII/

/XIII/XIV/XV/XVIII/

/XXIII/XXV, PWD

(ix) Superintendent of

— Member

Police (Traffic).

Secretary.

The members at serial No. (iv) and (viii)

shall be part of the Committee for their

respective jurisdiction.

(B) Powers and functions of the Road

Engineering Committee:— The Road

Engineering Committee shall,—

(i) meet at least in every quarter of

the year, i.e. for minimum four times in

a calendar year.

(ii) discuss and deliberate on the

reports submitted by the respective sub-

committees.

(iii) approve the short term effective

road safety measures undertaken by the

respective sub-committees, or if

disagreeable shall direct the concern

sub-committee, recommending appro-

priate measures to be undertaken.

(iv) decide and initiate process of

works on the long term road safety

measures recommended by the concern

sub-committee.

(v) decide on deputing an expert on

road engineering from the Public Works

Department or NHAI or an expert or

consultant appointed for said purpose,

if the need is formally communicated by

the sub-committee, for resolving road

safety issues of certain accident spots,

which should be dealt by such road

engineering experts only.

(vi) take cognizance of the Road Safety

issue(s), brought to its notice in the

meeting(s) by any stake holder

Member(s) of the committee or by any

other

stake

holder

Government

Department(s)/Agencies, pertaining to

Road Engineering aspect(s).

for the purpose of this Scheme shall

constitute the sub-committee under Road

Engineering Committee, consisting of

following members, namely:—

(i) the jurisdictional Police Station

In-charge - Police Inspector (P.I.)/Police

Sub-Inspector (P.S.I.).

(ii) jurisdictional Junior Engineer

(J.E.)/Team of Technical Officials of

P.W.D., posted under jurisdictional office

of Assistant Engineer (A.E.), responsible

for the Road Infrastructures, i.e. in

concern to National Highways/State

Highways/Major District Roads/State

Roads, as the case may be, or

jurisdictional

National

Highway

Authority of India Official(s).

(D) Powers and functions of the

Sub-Committee:— (1) The In-charge of the

jurisdictional Police Station shall initiate to

organize onsite inspection at the earliest,

by the sub-committee of the identified (a)

accident prone zone(s), (b) black spot, and

referred in clause 5(A) by serving Notice

in Form ‘A’, citing brief history of the

severity of the road accident(s) that have

occurred at the identified spot(s), with

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copies of this Notice, through proper

channel for information, to the Offices of

the

Road

Engineering

Committee,

Superintendent of Police (Law and Order)

North or South (as the case may be),

Superintendent of Police (Traffic), Deputy

Superintendent of Police (Traffic), North or

South (as the case may be) and Lead

Agency.

(2) The concerned Junior Engineer/Team

of Technical Officials, after onsite joint

inspection along with the In-charge of the

concern Police Station of the jurisdictional

Police Station, and in co-ordination with

the said Police official.—

(i)prepare a detailed report of onsite

deficiency or faulty provision noted, in

regard to engineering aspect of existing

road infrastructure, at the spot(s) and in

the nearby vicinity along the length of the

road.

(ii) initiate short term effective road

safety measures to overcome the noted

deficiency or fault.

(iii) submit a detailed report in Form ‘B’,

through proper channel, to the Road

Engineering Committee, detailing the

short term road safety measure(s) taken

or are to be taken, recommending/

/suggesting long term road safety

measure(s) required to be in place at the

identified spot(s) of accident(s), reasonably

within seven working days from the date

of onsite inspection by the sub-committee.

The copies of this detailed report shall also

be dispatched, through proper channel

for information, to the Offices of

Superintendent of Police (Law and Order)

North or South (as the case may be),

Superintendent of Police (Traffic), Deputy

Superintendent of Police (Traffic), North or

South (as the case may be), Lead Agency,

concerned Police Station In-charge and

concerned officer in-charge of Traffic Cell.

7. Periodical Inspection or Self Road Safety

Audit and Maintenance.— The concerned

jurisdictional Office of Assistant Engineer

shall carryout periodical inspection or Self -

Road Safety Audit, once in every three

months, of the entire stretches of the road

network within their office jurisdiction, to

ensure that all the road safety measure(s),

whether short term or long term, are in place

and well maintained. If the same is shabby/

/deteriorated or missing, then the same is to

be reworked in order to attain required road

safety standards.

8. Budgetary provisions.— (1) The

exclusive budgetary provisions may be

separately made under Road Safety

Measure(s), to meet expenses of the short

term and long term Road Safety Measure(s),

by the road owning agencies i.e. P.W.D. and

N.H.A.I.

(2) Appropriate amount of this budgetary

provisions, shall be made available at the

disposal of all the jurisdictional offices of

Assistant Engineer, to facilitate quick/

/speedier implementation of road safety

measure and towards regular periodical

maintenance of these measure(s).

FORM – ‘A’

Notice for Onsite Inspection by Sub-Committee

Reference No.:- (Outward No. of concern Police Station.)

1) Issued by: Police Station ________________

2) To assess: Accident Prone Zone(s)/Black Spot(s)/Vulnerable Road(s)

(Strike off whichever is not applicable)

3) Location of the Road Stretch: ______________in ____________ Taluka

4) Date and time:____________________________________________

5) Brief history of Road Accident(s) occurred at the location or brief description of the location of vulnerable

road stretch(s):-

Stamp & Signature

Police Station In-charge

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Enclosure(s):

Copy for information to:

1) O/o the Road Engineering Committee.

2) O/o the Superintendent of Police (District), North.

3) O/o the Superintendent of Police (District), South.

4) O/o the Superintendent of Police (Traffic) – Member Secretary, Road Engg. Cell.

5) O/o the concerned Dy. Superintendent of Police (Traffic), North/South.

6) O/o the Lead Agency.

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FORM – ‘B’

Report of Onsite Inspection of Sub-Committee

Reference No.:- (Outward No. of concern P.W.D. Off.)

1) Submitted to: The Road Engineering Committee

2) With reference to Notice of: ____________ Police Station (enclose copy)

3) Assessment of: Accident Prone Zone(s)/Black Spot(s)/Vulnerable Road(s).

(Strike off whichever is not applicable)

4) Location of the Road Stretch :____________in ___________Taluka

5) Date and time of Inspection conducted:___________________________

6) Finding(s) and Observation(s), in Road Engineering aspect:

(Supported by Onsite photographs and drawing/sketch)

7) Short term measure(s) taken/recommended to be taken:

8) Recommended long term measure(s):

Stamp & Signature

PWD Authority

Enclosure(s):

Copy for information to:

1) O/o the Superintendent of Police (District), North.

2) O/o the Superintendent of Police (District), South.

3) O/o the Superintendent of Police (Traffic) – Member Secretary, Road Engg. Cell.

4) O/o the concerned Dy. Superintendent of Police (Traffic), North/South.

5) O/o the Concern Police Station In-charge.

6) O/o the Concern Officer In-charge of Traffic Cell.

7) O/o the Lead Agency.

By order and in the name of the Governor of Goa.

Rajan Satardekar, Director and ex officio Jt. Secretary (Transport).

Panaji, 29th July, 2021.