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A paisa-vasool action..Page 4 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2019 INTERNET EDITION : www.dailyexcelsior.com/magazine Shirdhi Sai, incarnation..Page 3 Wild animals that die on roads Amit Sharma Group in 2015, to study the impact of roads on Indian wildlife. A team of five wildlife conservationists led by Mr. RTA's this is how the doctor's categorize any R. Mohammed Saleem, had undertaken a forty-four-day injury/death that occur on the road, because expedition, traveling more than 17,000 kilometres across of vehicular hit. RTA stands for "Road Traffic 22 states to study and spread awareness on roadkill. The question comes what to do? Under "The Jammu Accident", in India RTA/Traffic Collisions are and Kashmir Wildlife Protection Act 1978 AA 2002" a major source of deaths, injuries and property killing of any wild animal by any means is an offence, until damage every year. and unless proves otherwise. Since, it is very difficult to know who has hit the wild animal on the road, making it The Report on Road Safety, published by the World impossible to convict the culprit in the absence of the con- Health Organization (WHO) identified the major causes of crete evidences. traffic collisions as rash driving/over the speed limit, driving The Department of Wildlife Protection, J&K Govt. has under the influence of liquor/drugs, use of mobile phones, placed sign boards on the road sides with the messages not using helmets/safety belts, jumping red lights, wrong "you are passing through wildlife areas, drive slowly". We crossing, over loading etc.
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