Safety Awards conferred on 42 bus drivers  for their unblemished services

With a view to recognize the Drivers for their efforts in ensuring safety and preventing road accidents while driving Public transport buses, Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU)  today celebrated the HEROES ON THE ROAD felicitation in New Delhi. Secretary ,Ministry of  Road Transport & Highways Mrs Alka Upadhyay  gave away the Safety Awards to  42 drivers who were flown in along with their family members from all across the country for this event as a gesture of gratitude for their unblemished services. The top 17 drivers have all crossed recorded service of 30 years without an accident in their total service.

Currently, 80 State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTU) / SPVs under municipal Corporations are the members of ASRTU who are jointly operating approximately 1,50,000 buses and providing affordable and safer mobility to about 70 million passengers .ASRTU mainly deals with the promotion and improvement of Public Road Transport in the country. ASRTU serves as a forum to discuss the latest developments, identify key issues/challenges, and exchange information on the best practices of the State Road Transport Undertakings by conducting various meetings, conferences and seminars/workshops etc.

 The Ministry, along with related organizations and stakeholders has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to address the issue of Road Safety based on Education, Engineering (both of Roads and Vehicles), Enforcement and Emergency care.With regard to SRTUs, the road accidents involve in SRTU buses is very less (0.09 accident rate) some of the SRTUs have maintained accident rate much less than the average of 0.09 (Haryana, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu – Salem, Uttarakhand, Andaman & Nicobar and Delhi) in Urban Transport.

Few of the measures taken by SRTUs to reduce Road accidents are:

A. Driver Related

1. 1. Selection of educated and experienced driver in the recruitment stage itself
   2. Induction training and refresher training of the selected drivers
   3. Motivating the drivers by Awards and Rewards

B. Vehicle Related

1. 1. Maintenance of the bus as per the schedule and focus on safety related areas such as brakes, steering, headlights, tyres etc.
   2. Ergonomic design of driver seat
   3. Ensuring fitness of the vehicle at all the times

C. Operational Scheduling

i. Duty schedules and roasters with proper rest intervals to the drivers

ii. Crew restrooms with all amenities

D. Motivational Measures

i Ensuring refresher training programs to all the drivers at least once in an year.

ii Cash Awards and Certificates to the accident-free service drivers at a depot, region, zone and state level.

List of Drivers for Safety Awards
s. No.	Name of the Driver	STU	Years ofAccidentFree Service	Category
1	Kedari Tammanna Bakari	North west Karnataka Road Transport Corporation	38	Mofussil
2	Akula Mahaboob Basha	Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation	36	Mofussil
3	Ghodke Kisan Rambhau	Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation	36	Mofussil
4	Kallu Somi Reddy	Telangna State Road Transport Corporation	35	Mofussil
5	Lakshmana Reddy	Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation	35	City
6	Kandhi Ranga Reddy	Telangna State Road Transport Corporation	35	City
7	Shaik Dayan	Odisha State Road Transport Corporation	34	Mofussil
8	Siyaram Chaudhary	Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation	34	Mofussil
9	P. Swaminathan	TamilNadu State Road Transport Corporation -Villupuram	34	Mofussil
10	Eajaz Ahamed Sharif	Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation	33	Mofussil
11	S. A. N. Raju	Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation	33	City
12	Ishaq Shariff	Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation	33	City
13	Mir Pirubhai Chhotubhai	Gujrat State Road Transport Corporation	32	Mofussil
14	Divan Singh	Uttarakhand Transport Corporation	32	Mofussíl
15	N. Shanmugasundaram	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Coimbatore	31	rait/
16	T. Maria Gnaiah	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Tirunelvelí	30	City
17	M. Rajendiran	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Villupuram	30	City
18	Mohd. Rafique Abdul Sattar Mulla	Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation	29	City
19	Suresh N. Bhavikatü	North west Karnataka Road Transport Corporation	29	City
20	M. Ramesh	Tamil Nadu State Road ‘Transport Corporation – Madurai	28	Mofussil
21	IP. Angamuthu	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Salem	28	City
22	K. Andamuthu	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Coimbatore	27	Moíussil
23	C. Revichandran	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Kumbhkonam	27	Mofussil
24	S. Pairaj	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Kumbhkonam	27	City
25	(S. Veeramani	Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai)	26	City
26	Nandkumar Lawand	Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport	26	City
27	Kanagaraj	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Madurai	26	City
28	Aw;te Rajendra Mahadev	Solapur Municipal Transport Corporation	25	City
29	krun Narayan Kuchekar	Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd.	24	City
30	S. Ravichandran	State Express Transport Corporation	23	Mofussil
31	V. Thirumatai	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation – Salem	23	Mofussil
32	II. Meenatshi Sundaram	Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Corporation -Tirunelveli	22	Mofussil
33	Girijashankar Laltaprasad Pandey	BEST Undertaking	21	City
34	Shemar V. Bhat	Kadamba Transport Corporation Ltd.	20	Mofussil
35	Muktltjar Singh	Pepsu Road Transport Corporation	17	Mofussil
36	N. Abdul Rasheed	Kerala State Road Transport Corporation	16	City
37	S. Somenkatte	Kalyan Karnataka Road Transport Corporation	15	Mofussil
	Shravan Kumar	Kalyan Karnataka Road Transport Corporation	15	City
39	Aneeshkumar	Kerala State Road Transport Corporation	13	Mofussil
40	Pranjal Borah	Assam STransport Corporation	11	Mofussil
41	Bhaskar Kalita	Assam STransport Corporation		City
42	Anand kurnar	Utter Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation		Mofussil