ROAD ACCIDENTS: DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

Stress if not managed properly leads to defects in regulation, control, coordination, harmony, efficiency inside and outside us and leads to hundreds of psychological, neurological, endocrine and metabolic disturbances; and leads to defects in the policies; which are responsible for excessive production and marketing of small vehicles of individual use and severe shortage of vehicles of mass transport (buses, trams, trains, ships etc).
This leads to increase in
1. Difficulty in disciplined and efficient vehicular movement
2. Fuel consumption, chemical pollution, import expenses, fuel prices and food prices!
3. Wear and tear of roads, maintenance expenses
4. Noise pollution
5. Load on meager number of local trains and other means of public transport [where ever available] and consequent accidents, quarrels and mishaps
6. Stress leading to defective driving behavior
7. The number and severity of accidents, difficulty in providing medical aid (and disaster management) due to difficulty in movement of ambulances and fire fighters.
8. Unproductive and wasteful work; such as insurance, registration and traffic policing!
9. Road crimes such as thefts due to difficulty in enforcing law and order because of slowing of police movement
10. Undegradable solid waste.
11. Area of concretization (at the cost of irreplaceable trees extremely important for avoiding global warming, pollution, rain and organic manure and open earth surface vital for absorbing and holding rain water) and disruption of natural habitat of the animals.
12. Difficulty for use of eco-friendly bicycles.
Thus, one wrong policy, due to mismanaged stress, multiplies stress in several ways besides increasing road accidents.

Selfless thinking, motivation, urge and determination emerging from involvement in NAMASMARAN empowers us to conceive and implement the immediate and most important solution (besides others) viz. the policy of quantitative and qualitative improvement of public (mass) transport and restriction of the number of small vehicles of individual use!