KATHMANDU: Lawmakers speaking at the special hour of the Legislature-Parliament meeting today drew the government's attention towards rising number of road accidents in the country, urging it to come up with substantive steps to ensure road safety and minimise traffic fatalities.

Expressing their concerns over the lack of road safety and inconveniences being faced by passengers, they demanded that the government come up with a substantive plan for reducing the level of road accidents. The government should mobilise its every mechanism to improve the situation of road safety and to immediately upgrade rural roads and roadways that are in poor conditions.

The government should mobilise its every mechanism to improve the situation of road safety and to immediately upgrade rural roads and roadways that are in poor conditions, they said. The demanded cost-free treatment for those injured in the Dhading bus accident Tuesday and proper compensation to the bereaved families.

The leaders also demanded cost-free treatment for those injured in the Dhading bus accident on Tuesday and proper compensation to the bereaved families. Krishna Bhakta Pokhrel, Guru Prasad Burlakoti, Resham Bahadur Baniya, Bharatpur Kumar Saha,

Lawmakers Krishna Bhakta Pokharel, Guru Prasad Burlakoti, Resham Bahadur Baniya, Bharatpur Kumar Sah, Aman Lal Modi, Kunti Kumari Shahi, Chhanya Sharma, Gita Chhetri, Narsingh Chaudhary , Shiv Chandra Yadav, Dilli Prasad Kafle, Ganga Chaudhary, Prem Bahadur Singh, Laxman Rajbanshi and Tikaram Chemjong were among those putting their views about the contemporary issues at the meeting. Lawmaker Shahi and

Lawmaker Shahi and Kafle, meanwhile, objected to the Cabinet decision to create local bodies being based on areas (ilaks) while Sharma demanded action against the guilty in the plantations of improvised exclusive devices (IEDs) in some Capital-bases schools on September 21.

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