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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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