By Ghovin s/o Dharmapalan
Ministry of Work
Topic: Ministry of Work
During Raya time, as our Muslim friends
fast through the holy month Ramadhan, we head to the festive period filled with
eager anticipation. For most, it would be a joyous time of reunion with loved
ones, especially those who moved out of their hometowns for better pastures in
the cities.
However, for some families, things will
not be going as planned. Despite the authorities' best efforts at organizing
campaigns like Ops Sikap, the festive period invariably coincides with a sharp
rise in the number of (reported) accident cases. Over the years, fortunes have
been spent on educating the masses on proper road etiquette with little
success.
The figures make for disappointing
reading. Our roads kill, on average, 18 people a day. The implementation of Ops
Sikap brings the figure down to 15. Think of it this way, the H1N1 outbreak,
for all the panic it has been causing, is far less lethal. Your odds of
emerging unscathed from a bout of H1N1 are actually very promising, but you
can't say the same of a severe road accident. Yet, the bizarre reality is that
people are more ready to don face masks than wear safety belts.
Earlier today, the Ministry of Works,
with the support of Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR), Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM),
and 26 tolled highway concessionaires, has launched the C.A.R.E. road safety
program with the intent of slashing the number of road accidents nationwide to achieve this objective by attempting to
cultivate safe and responsible driving as a Malaysian way of life.
Officiating the campaign's launch was
Works Minister, Dato' Shaziman Abu Mansor, who unveiled the campaign's logo at
a ceremony held at the PLUS North Bound R&R stop at Dengkil. The
implementation of C.A.R.E, which stands for C - Courteous, A - Attitude, R -
Responsible, E - Etiquette, is a key component in the Works Ministry's KPI to
arrest the alarming trend of our country's accident rates.
All of these helps in the Ministry of
work. Thus, campaigns and such events will be effective to make Malaysia a
better place to live for Malaysia.
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I do agree with your article. As we can observed now that the road accidents cases are increasing recently especially during festival. Therefore, I agree with the program that you suggest.
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