Write speech on road encroachment
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It is very regrettable that we have thrown caution to the winds and are rather insensible while driving or walking on the roads. The rise in total number of road accident in the past six years is nidification enough that it is nothing but our negligence and breaking of basic traffic rules that has led to this regular rise in the number of accidents.
I sincerely hope you will publish my letter in your esteemed newspaper so as to create public awareness and concern about the need for safety roads.
Almost every day news pertaining to encroachment of roads and resultant accidents taking place are reported. There are many reasons to cite in this regards. The ever increasing rush of people towards cities, narrow roads, huge traffic (public & private) etc. Added to it is encroachement on roads by shopkeepers, rahriwallas etc. Shopkeepers display most of their items outside their shops which eat away some portion of roads, foot paths etc but worst encroachment has been done by shopkeepers who sell construction material like sand, bricks, iron rods, bajri etc.
The material especially sand, bajri is seen dumped on roads while iron rods are lying outside their shops and are very dangerous for walkers. If by chance a foot gets stuck in iron rods one can have fatal accident, may be death also, for which neither shopkeepers nor concerned Deptt. Municipal Corporation Jammu takes any action. Nobody seems to bother for common man. Two wheelers slip on sand, bajri but who cares ? It has become a routine affair. This also gives rise to fumes of dust. One can’t breathe but there is no value for human life. Hope the JMC authorities may take action in this regard.