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- What is the ministry under which the National Council for Road Safety functions?
- How many vehicles have been registered in Sri Lanka as of now?
- Approximately how many people die of road accidents in Sri Lanka per day?
- What are the main causes of fatal road accidents?
- Name the institution of the United Nations for which the subject of road safety is assigned to.
- How many people die per year in the world as a result of road accidents?
- How many children die per day in the world as a result of fatal road accidents?
- The United Nations has designated a Decade of Action for Road Safety. Name that decade.
- Coordinating activities relating to road safety amongst governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
- Paying compensation to persons injured in hit and run accidents.
- Maintaining a database
- Number of vehicles and their features.
- Road accidents.
- Local and international statistics about road accidents.
- Maintaining a library on road safety.
- Maintaining relationships with like minded international institutions and exchange of knowledge.
- Preparing and implementing projects on road safety.
- Offering advice to the government on policies and projects connected with road safety.
Activities to be carried out in the year 2021
- Establishing committee on road safety.
- Formulating a national policy on road safety Publicity campaigns over television and radio.
- Paying compensation to victims of accidents caused by unidentified vehicles.
- Establishing provincial road safety committees and their future programme of work.
- Commemorating the day of victims.
- Creating awareness among schoolchildren, government institutions, three wheel drivers and private bus drivers.
- Commemorating Road Safety National Day n the month of March 2019.
- Forming road safety students’ societies in schools.
- Conducting an international workshop on road safety with the participation of governmental and voluntary organizations of the South Asian region.
- Converting roads leading up to Kawdana junction from the Katubedda road block into an accident prevention zone.
- Converting the said road block into an awareness creating centre and educating drivers and pedestrians by fixing display notices and banners.
- Raising awareness among schoolchildren at the national level and giving practical knowledge to them by installing traffic regulation signals in schools.
- Forming a road safety student brigade and forming school societies in every school to create awareness in that regard.
- Designating the Road Safety Day during the month of March and declaring an island-wide road safety week.
- Initiating training programmes at every privately owned factory for raising scientific, technological and legal awareness with a view to producing drivers equipped with productivity.
- Formal awareness creation among all SLTB and private bus drivers.
- Educating drivers of school vans and addressing service shortcomings and problems.
- Creating the necessary background for a qualitative three wheeler service for the public through formal training and by bringing about an attitudinal change in three wheeler drivers.
- Displaying awareness creating notices and road signs in every own of the island.
Our Mission for a Secured Society on Roads
- Standardization of helmets and bringing to a safe status.
- Bringing the unprotected three-wheeler to safe status.
- Providing protection for small cars even with air bags.
- Making a meter compulsory for three wheelers for the goodness of passengers.
- Fixing seat belts for three wheelers, covering all iron and steel pipes inside with rubber.
- Strengthen the canopy on the right side and make it safer.
- Taking actions to remove yellow strips established at wrong places and do corrections.
- Establishment of reflective boards to educate the public on unsafe level crossings.
- Establishment of public awareness boards at railway stations.
- Rehabilitation of SLTB drivers who have been injured.
- Working in collaboration with the Presidential Secretariat to reduce environmental pollution caused by vehicles.
- Contribution for the reduction of noise pollution.
- Providing financial aid to victims of hit and run accidents.
- Conducting free pre-training programs for driving licence applicants.
- Implementation of programs to reduce violence against women in the public transport.
- Contributing to the amendment of the Fines Act.
- Establishment of Provincial Road Safety Agencies
- Conducting awareness programs for school children at national level.
- Creating awareness among of government and non-governmental officials.
| Name & Designation | Telephone | Fax | |
| Mr.Malith Jayathilaka Chairman |
+94 11 31 68 501 | +94 112 680163 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Mrs. R.A.K. Renuka Secretary |
+94 112 696 890 | +94 112 680163 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Vision
Safe roads for all
Mission
Creating a society free of road accidents.
National Council for Road Safety was established under the Motor Traffic Amendment Act No.5 of 1998 and functions as an institution under the purview of the Ministry of Transport. National Council for Road Safety is the sole public sector institution operating in the country on the theme of creating a safe and secure road network for all. The Council headed by a Chairman consists of 17 representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations.
For a developing country, controlling traffic and minimizing accidents involving motor vehicles and ensuring road safety is as important as developing infrastructure facilities, preventing environmental pollution and conserving environment. If development targets expected to be attained through improvement of roads and highways, more attention needs to be focused on minimizing road accidents and ensuring road safety of all road users.
The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration has designated the period from of 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety and concurrently Sri Lanka held the National Conference on Road Safety on May 11th 2011 under the patronage of His Excellency the President and declared the period from 2011-2020 as road safety decade. A 10-year plan for road safety was formulated as part of this process and submitted to Parliament.
Section 213 A of the Motor Traffic Amendment Act has prescribed the functions of the Council and “Road Safety Fund’ to be administered and managed by the Council has been established under section 213 B(2) of the Act. Insurance companies contribute to the Fund by donating 1% of the premium from insurance policies in respect of third party risks.