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Road Safety Month 2021

                                                      Seminar on-
           “Role of General Insurance Surveyor's in Mitigation of


                                              Road Accidents”


                                                    Organised By:-
           INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INSURANCE SURVEYOR AND LOSS ASSESSOR, W.B Chapter
                     In ASSOCIATION with Risks Management ASSOCIATION OF INDIA (Kolkata)

                            Chief Guest : Tanmay Sarkar, Central Council Member, IIISLA
                          Key Note by : Shashi Bhushan, Council Member, IIISLA East Zone

                                           Venue: Progressive Hall, Kolkata
                                              Date : 13th February 2021





















           Sitting L-R Mr Sashi Bhushan,Council Member,IIISLA East  Mr. Tanmoy Sarkar, Central Council Member, IIISLA presenting
           Zone, Mr. Tanmoy Sarkar, Central Council Member, IIISLA,  a momento to Mr. R.G.Agarwala, Editor in Chief, The
           Mr. R.G.Agarwala, Editor in Chief, The Insurance Times,  Insurance Times and President, Risk Management Association
           Mr. Biswanath Karmakar, Chairman,IIISLA,W.B Chapter,  of India
           Mr. Biman Banerjee, Secretary IIISLA, W.B Chapter

            NEED FOR ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS IN INSURANCE INDUSTRY


           Mr R. G. Agarwala,  President, Risk Management Association of India and Editor in Chief, The Insurance Times

         Every year road crashes result in loss of lakhs of lives and  waste material in road construction. This will definitely going
         serious injuries to crores of people. In most of the cases  to improve road safety.
         crashes occurs either due to carelessness or due to lack of  Currently Road accidents in India account for approximately
         road safety awareness of the road user. Road Accidents are  11% of the accident related deaths in the world. As per the
         a major cause of concern to common people, government,  Road Accidents Report for 2019. 4,49,002 accidents took
         insurers and other stakeholders.                     place in the country during CY2019, leading to 1,51,113
         Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and MSME  deaths and 4,51,361 injuries. In percentage terms, the
         Sri Nitin Gadkari has been proactive in improving the  number of accidents decreased by 3.86 percent in 2019 as
         condition of roads, building highways, inviting new  compared to CY2018, while accident - related deaths
         technologies in road construction, use of plastics and other  decreased by 0.20 percent and those injured decreased by

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