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1st IRF REGIONAL CONFERENCE &

EXHIBITION FOR ROAD SAFETY
WEDNESDAY JUNE 26, 2019
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The Status of the Decade of Action for Road Safety
in Nepal

Presented by
Bhagabati Sedain
Nepal Automobile Association (NASA)

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People carrying car for the first time to Kathmandu 5

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Nepal is a landlocked country in which road transport is
overwhelmingly responsible for the transportation of cargo
and passengers

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 Growth in Vehicle Registration
3500000

3000000
Vehicle Registration

2500000

2000000

1500000

1000000

500000

0
1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

Year
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 Road injury scenario of Nepal

Nuber of victims in Road Accidents

9000
8127 8226 8290 8247
8000 7877
8000

7000
Normal enjury
6000 Serious enjury
Numbers

5000 Death
4182 4250 4144
3986 4054
4000 3516

3000 2541
2384
2004 2006
1816 1787
2000

1000

0
2012/013 2013/014 2014/015 2015/016 2016/017 2017/018

Years

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 Government’s initiatives for road safety during UN decade 9
for road safety

• In June, 2011 Ministry of health announced Decade Action for Road

Safety in Nepal
• In Line to the UN Global Plan for the Decade of Action for road safety
2011-2020, Nepal road safety action plan (2013-2020) was prepared in
2012.
•Reduce deaths from traffic accident by 35% up to 2015
•Reduce deaths from traffic accidents by 50% up to 2020
• Plans were formulated to address all the five pillars of road safety

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UN decade action plan of Nepal and achievements
Pillar Planned activities Achievement
Pillar 1: Road Safety Management 5 4

Pillar 2: Safer Mobility 7 4

Pillar 3: Safer Vehicles 8 3

Pillar 4: Safer road user 8 5

Pillar 5:Post crash response 8 3

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Road Crash Information Management System (2018)

Road Accident information Management System

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Other Ad Hoc road safety circulars

• Against drinking and driving strictly introduced from 2014

• No horn regulation came into effective from April, 2015
• Regulation against mobile use was introduced 2016
• Considering the growing number of accidents highway emergency
hospital was established in 2017
• Road side assistance was also introduced 2018
• Helmet NS standard was approved in 2019

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Establishment of NASA and it’s activity

• Nepal Automobiles Association (NASA) was established in 2008 to

work for Motor and Motorbike, Touring, Road Safety
• In 2011 NASA Nepal became the member of FIA and FIM
• NASA conducted First Youth for Road Safety Campaign 2012 Nepal in
presence of Jean Todt
• First national road safety conference was held in 2013 Dec
• The UN Global Road Safety Week was celebrated from 2013
• World remembrance day of road traffic victim celebrated from 2015

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• Road safety national award distributed from 2013 to the
personalities contributing for road safety
• Road safety media award distributed from 2014
• Media campaign on road safety from 2015
• Road safety film festival was organized by NASA, 20 short movies
were presented by students from different colleges
• Red Cross Society involved in road safety from2015
• Second road safety conference was held in 2015
• For high level action in road safety parliamentary sub-committee was
formed in 2017

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• NASA in collaboration with different stakeholders announced 2017-

2018 for Motorcycle safety year
• NASA became the member of Belt and Road International Transport
Alliances (BRITA) in 2018
• BRITA conference held in Kathmandu in Feb 2019
• Road safety leadership training program was conducted
• National conference on automotive engineering was held in 2019

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International agencies’ collaboration with local NGOs in 16
Nepal over the past decade
• IRF global • International Federation of
• FIA Geneva Automotive engineering societies

• FIM Geneva • IRF Geneva

• Safe kids world wide

• Global Ngo Alliance
• International Road Transport Union • Recently some international
Academic institutions have shown
• Belt and road international
interest in doing research e.g. UWE
transport alliance
Bristol through NIRC.
• International film festival
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Haphazard road construction

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Pedestrian rights are neglected

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The resources (technical experts/mechanics, institutional capacity)
should be strengthened in order to achieve the execute the provisions
of Transport Management Directives https://bit.ly/2I4Sr8y

Note: this table updated by DoTM in 2074BS shows the gap in human
resources/technical experts. The Directives does not describe how these
resources will be recruited.
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Challenges for road safety in Nepal

• The highest level of Road Safety Leadership (Institutional and Legislative)

is not clear yet.
• Lacking in effective enforcement of traffic rules
• Demanded road safety council since 2010, still not formed
• About 20 NGOs, Gos and INGos working for road safety in Nepal,
however, there is lacking in coordination between them
• Lack of road safety knowledge in road users
• Insufficient number of traffic police for effective enforcement of traffic
rules
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Thank You

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